At defense contractor SNT Motiv, a firearm development employee was found dead with a gunshot wound.
According to the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency and others on the 25th, at about 8:35 a.m. that day, a male employee in his 30s, identified as A, was found collapsed and bleeding from the head at the SNT Motiv defense plant located in Cheolma-myeon, Gijang-gun, Busan.
A colleague who came to work that morning found A and called 119, and paramedics who responded confirmed that A had died at the scene and handed the case over to police.
The place where A was found was not the firearm production line but a space for testing developed firearms, and there were said to be many guns present. A appears to have stayed at the company and not gone home the previous day.
SNT Motiv announced that, due to the fatal accident that day, it would suspend production through the 28th, saying, "The company is currently checking the circumstances of the accident and will resolve the matter as soon as possible."
Police plan to investigate the exact circumstances, keeping open the possibility that A took his own life.
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