SOUTH KOREA: Al Jazeera has reported that four people were killed due to heavy rains in South Korea’s southern region.
Roads, infrastructure, and properties suffered significantly from torrential downpours. The Ministry of Interior and Safety noted that over fifty districts were under landslide alerts, moreover, about 3.5 thousand people became stuck there, according to the same source.
Interior Minister Lee Sang-Min told reporters “It was a level of severity seen once in about 200 years.”
The area received 131.7 mm of rainfall on Wednesday which was more than 10 percent of Gunsan City’s average annual rainfall.
After the apartment got flooded with water, a man who had been trapped inside it died.
On July 18, 2023 forty-four people died from floods in South Korea.
Marine Corps rescuers discovered a woman’s body in Yecheon and shortly after noon another woman in her seventies was found by a police rescue dog buried under piles of wood while nine persons still remained missing after torrential rains that struck the country causing floods as well as landslides.
Rescue personnel found a man from his seventies inside a house that had collapsed due to landslides. Though he was immediately rushed to the hospital he later succumbed to his injuries.
Moreover, one more man died in Daegu at sixty years old; he fell into an underground drain during an inspection in his farm. Another septuagenarian also lost his life when his car was washed away by an overflowing stream.
The male victim’ body was also found later on the same day within the same county.
These three are some among nine people who remain unaccounted for since this week’s torrents entered South Korea causing floods and slides all over the country.
