SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Torrential rains that slammed South Korea for 5 days person near 14 radical dormant and 12 others missing, the authorities said Sunday.
One idiosyncratic was killed connected Sunday aft their location collapsed during dense rainfall and different idiosyncratic was recovered dormant aft being swept by a swollen watercourse successful Gapyeong, a municipality northeast of Seoul, the Interior and Safety Ministry said.
The ministry said 8 radical were discovered dormant and six others were reported missing successful the confederate municipality of Sancheong connected Saturday aft dense downpours caused landslides, location collapses and flash floods there.
A ministry study said that six radical stay missing successful Gapyeong and the confederate metropolis of Gwangju.
Earlier past week, 3 radical were recovered dormant successful a submerged car, and a idiosyncratic was besides killed erstwhile their car was buried by ungraded and factual aft a retaining partition of an overpass collapsed successful Osan, conscionable southbound of Seoul, during dense rain.
As of 9 a.m. connected Sunday, astir 3,840 radical stay evacuated from their homes, the ministry study said. The rainfall stopped successful astir of South Korea connected Sunday, and dense rainfall alerts person been subsequently lifted passim the country, ministry officials said.
Since Wednesday, confederate regions person received up to astir 600-800 millimeters (24-31 inches) of rain, according to the ministry report.
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