In the morning on the 12th, Gyeongbuk fire officials, including the Gyeongbuk Wildfire Special Response Unit, resume the search in Juwangsan National Park in Cheongsong County for a missing 13-year-old elementary school student. /Courtesy of Gyeongbuk Fire Service Headquarters

An elementary school student who went alone to hike on Juwangsan in Cheongsong, North Gyeongsang, and then went missing was found dead.

According to fire officials and others on the 12th, search authorities found the body of a boy, A (11), at about 10:25 a.m. that day at the lower part of Jubong. It was reportedly outside the trail.

At about 12 p.m. on the 10th, A visited Daejeonsa in Juwangsan National Park with family. Saying "I'll go just a little and come back," A set out to hike toward Jubong, but did not return, so the family reported it to police at about 5:53 p.m. the same day.

Authorities plan to investigate the exact circumstances, believing A set out to hike and slipped, leading to the fatal accident.

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