According to the latest assessment of the authorities, nine people have died and seven others missing since the beginning of this historical precipitation, Monday.
Le Monde with AFP
The balance sheet increases in South Korea: nine people died and seven others remain missing after record precipitation flooded major roads, metro stations and houses, announced on Wednesday, August 10, authorities.
The torrential rains, which started on Monday, are the strongest recorded in South Korea since the first weather observations, a hundred and fifteen years ago, according to President Yoon Seok-Youl, who apologized for the ” Disagreements “.
“There are a total of sixteen victims, including nine dead and seven missing,” said an official of the Interior Ministry interviewed by the France-Presse agency. In all, almost six hundred people were directly affected by various titles, he added, many being forced to leave their homes. 2> three people trapped in their apartment
According to the ministry, among the nine people who lost their lives, three have remained stuck in their flooded banjiha – it is apartments located in the basement, crazy, like the one in the family of the parasitic film resides, Bong Joon-Ho. According to local media, he is a teenager, his mother and his aunt.
Another person died by moving a tree fallen on the sidewalk, possibly by electrocution. A landslide has buried the house of another victim in the mountain province of Gangwon.
The Huppé district of Seoul, Gangnam, was particularly affected, with parked cars which were partly submerged. Images circulated at the beginning of the week on the social networks of people evolving in water arriving at the size and submerged metro stations.
the President C Oréen acknowledged that the South Koreans had “undergone a lot of damage” and asked, during a government meeting, to take care of the most disadvantaged. “People with financial or physical difficulties are necessarily more vulnerable to natural disasters,” he said. Mr. Yoon is the subject of criticism so as not to have gone to the government’s emergency control center when the rain started to fall.
According to local media, his absence was due to a flood around his house, but his services denied this explanation, ensuring that he had decided to stay at home because his team already had the situation in hand.
