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Thursday, 20 February, 2003, 01:39 GMT
In pictures: S Korea train fire aftermath
As the identification of victims in Tuesday's arson attack on a South Korean subway begins, angry relatives have been demanding why so many people died.

Policeman guards remains of subway train
An investigation has been launched into the attack, in which at least 125 people died

Weeping man reaches out at sight of burned carriages put on display
Grieving relatives are asking why safety standards within the underground system were not better

Relatives of the victims in Tuesdays subway accident struggle with policemen as they try to meet with South Korean Prime Minister Kim Suk-soo
And there were earlier angry scenes as victim's relatives jostled police during the South Korean prime minister's visit

Soldiers with masks
Soldiers are continuing the grim task of recovering bodies...

South Korean soldiers clean up the platform of the subway station
....as there are still many who remain missing

This image, provided by a survivor of the fire, shows smoke flooding another train
Many of the victims suffocated from noxious fumes - photographed here by a survivor on another train...

Hands, fingers and nails marks seen on the soot-covered floor of the charred subway station
And the station floor still shows the marks of hands and nails as victims desperately struggled to escape

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