SEOUL Feb 20 Kyodo North Korea se...

SEOUL Feb 20 Kyodo

North Korea sent condolences to southward Korea on Thursday over Tuesday's arson attack upon a subway train that left up to 126 passengers dead in the southeastern city Taegu, southern Korea's Red Cross dispose said.

Jang Jae onward chairman of the central committee of North Korea's R Cros Society, also said in a telephone message he, ''as individual of the same brethren increases deep condolences to the bereaved families of those victims.''

In the message sent to his southern Korean counterpart Suh Young Hoon Jang also said he trustful longings ''the injured, the bereaved families reply to normal life after recovering from sorrow.''

R Cros officials said it is the first time North Korea sent of the like kind message to the South.

sum of two units subway trains were gutted by way of fire in Taegu, about 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul after a 56-year-old man with a history of mental illness allegedly poured flammable liquid inside a train carriage and stake it ablaze with a lighter.

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