A mother and her son were killed after an SUV fell into the sea

INCHEON, May 26 (Yonhap) -- An SUV carrying a mother and her son plunged into the sea off Incheon, killing both of them, police said Friday.

The accident occurred at 12:49 p.m. Thursday when the car driven by the mother in her 50s veered off a road in Songdo district of Incheon, about 30 kilometers west of Seoul, and plunged into the sea, according to the Incheon Coast Guard.

He added that she and her son, in their twenties, were rescued in cardiac arrest and were taken to a nearby hospital, but eventually died.

The Coast Guard plans to investigate the exact cause of the accident, as it occurred on a makeshift road near a construction site.