Streets flooded in Seoul, South Korea. The country has been affected by heavy rains, which have caused landslides. Photo: Reuters/YonhapHeavy rain has caused landslides in the capital of Korea in South, Seoul, and a town in the North, killing to at least 32 people and leaving a child missing, officials said.
Ten of the 13 people killed in a landslide in the early morning in Chuncheon, about 68 kilometers northeast of Seoul, were University students who had been doing volunteer work, said Byun in-soo, of the city fire station. They were staying in a cabin of resource when the mud and debris are wrapped. Also killed were a married couple and a convenience store owner.
About 500 officials and residents worked to rescue people trapped in the mud and debris. Twenty-four people were injured and several buildings destroyed, officials said.
In southern Seoul, six people were killed when a wave of mud crashed against residential areas at the foot of a mountain, Lee Sun-myeong, a city official said. The dead were not yet identified. Missing a child.
About 15 inches of rain fell in Seoul in just 17 hours starting Tuesday afternoon. More than 10 inches fell in Chuncheon in the last two days, and weather officials said it could still fall another 10 inches in the North Korea, including Seoul, before the weekend.
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Muddy water, fast has filled the streets of Seoul for people fighting for the roofs of their vehicles partially submerged. Water filled with some burst of sewers and subway stations. TV images showed people in a subway station flooded with shovels, brooms and a table of wood in an effort to avoid that more rain.
Some 800 houses flooded, according to an official of the city disaster. Closed 23 official such roads in the city.
Local TV showed officials rescue of hikers stranded on the slopes of the mountains. People waded through knee-deep water-covered streets. Cars were could come at the bottom of a two-tier bridge in the center of Seoul that was submerged.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency issued an emergency traffic, mobilize more agents to deal with the problems caused by heavy rains.
Officials in Seoul said they were considering closing two roads of city stretching along each side of the River have had to increase in the level of the water. Cha Jun-ho, an official at the Han Government river flood control Office, said a reservoir located east of Seoul performance of 16,400 tons of water per second; High Dam near 1,000 tonnes for second day before the recent downpours.
About 60 houses were isolated road in the village of Hyeongchon in Seoul due to heavy rains, and fire officials were trying to rescue them, said a local official.
Persons issued dozens of Twitter and Facebook photos showing flooded streets and cars covered in mud. Many reported online that Seoul had neglected to prepare these downpours.
In Chuncheon, TV footage showed a planted town in rubble. Rescue teams to a stunned person covered in mud from head to toe in a stretcher. Others also covered with mud, flooring into ambulances. Rescue workers in rain Orange blade of fishing gear used to move the mud and bulldozers cleared heavy debris.
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