Police looking for 100,000 masks missing before China-bound shipment
A woman in a face mask walks along a shopping street as snow falls in Beijing Wednesday. Deaths from the new coronavirus rose to 490 in mainland China as new cases on a Japanese cruise ship, in Hong Kong and other places showed the increasing spread of the disease and renewed attention on containing it. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
By Park Si-soo
Police are looking for 100,000 face masks that vanished from a warehouse in Incheon last week.
The masks were supposed to be loaded this week onto a cargo vessel bound for China, which is waging an uphill battle against the deadly coronavirus.
Incheon Jungbu Police Station said a Korean trader noticed on Saturday the masks had disappeared and called police.
“We are looking into various possible scenarios including the warehouse manager's mistake of handing over the masks to the wrong person,” a police officer said.