South Korea: 17 people have died due to heavy rain lasting for many days

As of 6 p.m. on July 20, at least 17 people have died and 11 people are missing due to heavy rains over the past four days causing landslides in South Korea.

Flooded street after heavy rains in Gwangju, South Korea (Photo: Yonhap/VNA)

According to a report by the Ministry of the Interior and the National Fire Agency of South Korea, as of 6 p.m. on July 20 (local time, or about 4 p.m. Vietnam time), at least 17 people have died and 11 people are missing due to heavy rains over the past four days causing landslides in this Northeast Asian country.

In Sancheong County, South Gyeongsang Province alone, 10 people were killed and four are missing. The death toll may continue to rise as rescue teams continue to search for survivors in the county.

To date, nearly 2,000 roads have been flooded, soil erosion and public infrastructure destroyed, along with 2,238 cases of damage to private property, such as homes and farmland .

South Korea is forecast to experience more heavy rain later on July 20 in Gyeonggi, Gangwon, and Chungcheong provinces, but authorities lifted the highest emergency response warning at 6 p.m. the same day.

Earlier on July 20, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung asked the government to quickly consider declaring severely damaged areas as "special disaster zones." These areas will receive government support in disaster recovery and support for affected people.

Heavy rains that have raged across South Korea since July 16 have caused power outages at many base stations, an essential part of mobile telecommunications infrastructure, leading to disruptions in telecommunications networks across the country this weekend, according to South Korean officials.

According to the South Korean Ministry of Science and Technology, the power outage has disrupted about 7,000 telecommunications base stations serving wireless services since noon on July 20 local time, affecting about 100,000 landline phone subscribers and Internet services.

However, the ministry said that by the evening of the same day, about 90% of wireless phone services and 98% of landline phone services had been restored.

Most of the network problems were recorded in Sancheong and Gapyeong counties in southern South Korea, about 55km northeast of Seoul, because these are two localities that suffered heavy rain in a short period of time./.

According to Vietnam+

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