2023-07-15 06:47:04
Las heavy rain monsoons that have hit South Korea in recent days have so far stopped seven dead, three missing and thousands evacuated, in addition to cuts in basic infrastructure, as reported today by the authorities of the Asian country. At 6:00 a.m. (local time) this Saturday, the balance of people affected by the torrential rains also included six woundedaccording to sources from the Central Headquarters for Security and Disaster Countermeasures collected by the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
The two deceased were inside a building that collapsed as a result of a landslide in Nonsan, 150 kilometers south of Seoul. Among the three missing people, it is feared that two may have died as a result of another mudslide in Bonghwa, some 170 kilometers southeast of the South Korean capital.
At the same time, about 8,000 residents Goesan county and the city of Chungju, in the center of the country, have been evacuated after the dam that is in this area began to overflow. Around another 700 people also remain evacuated in various parts of the country, where there are close to a hundred roads blocked.
In turn, there have been cuts in the electricity supply in a dozen towns, and rail services in the center of the country, where alerts for torrential rains are still active, remain suspended for the moment, including high-speed ones.
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