SEOUL, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Five to six trucks loaded with unidentified equipment were blocked by activists Wednesday while trying to enter the site in southeast South Korea where Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is scheduled to be installed.
The trucks got to the Soseong-ri village in Seongju county at about 8 a.m. local time, attempting to pass the entrance road to the golf course, where Seoul and Washington agreed to deploy one THAAD battery.
Almost 100 residents and civil group activists stood in the road to block the trucks from passing it through, one of the activists joining the anti-THAAD movement told Xinhua over phone.
The trucks hauled off to a nearby place and tried once again at about noon to enter the THAAD deployment site.
The attempt also failed as people blocked the trucks, which returned to an unidentified place two hours later. Hundreds of police officers and scores of police buses surrounded the residents and activists, threatening to make them dispersed as they were in violation of law.
Neither violence nor clash between the residents and police has happened yet, said the activist participating in the physical blockade.
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