Officials remove ballot boxes from a polling station in southern Seoul on Friday after breaking up protesters who had gathered in protest of a shortage of ballots during the June 3 local elections. Photo by Yonhap
Police on Friday secured remaining ballot boxes at a polling station in southern Seoul, two days after protesters gathered to prevent election officials from removing them in protest of a shortage of ballots during the June 3 local elections.
Police officials broke through a crowd of protesters to remove the two ballot boxes at the polling station in Jamsil, Songpa Ward, after deploying around 1,000 officers to the scene earlier in the day to break up the rally.
The boxes, said to contain around 2,000 ballots, were transported to a ballot counting center at nearby Olympic Park.
Authorities said multiple people suffered minor injuries at the polling station and the vote counting center, where protesters also gathered to demand election officials to stop the count.
