The torrential rains that started on Monday are the strongest recorded for eighty years in the country. The toll is currently established at the moment at seven deaths and seven people who have been missing, announced the authorities.
Le Monde with AFP
The balance sheet is still provisional. In floods having notably touched Seoul on Monday and Tuesday, seven people died and seven were missing, the authorities announced. Water has notably invaded metro stations and several roads in the capital.
“At least seven people died in the agglomeration of Seoul, (…) Seven others are missing, due to heavy rains at 7:30 am this morning,” said France-Presse (AFP ) A manager of the Ministry of the Interior of South Korea.
The authorities warned against the arrival of new rains, while the rescuers were trying to release the carcasses of flooded cars in the streets of Seoul, AFP journalists have noted. Up to 300 millimeters of additional rain was planned for the central region, including Seoul.
The highest rains recorded for eighty years
The torrential rains that started on Monday are the strongest fallen in South Korea for eighty years, according to the Yonhap news agency.
Dramatic images shared Monday evening on social networks have shown people wading in the water that went up to the waist, overflowing metro stations and half submerged cars in the chic district of Gangnam, in Seoul.
The Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA) has summoned the South Koreans to “pay attention to heavy rain, gusts, as well as thunder and lightning in the central region” in the coming days.
According to local media, three people Ones living in a “banjiha” -apartments in the basement extricated like the one where the family of the film “parasite”, by Bong Joon -Ho -resides, of which a teenager, died drowned in their apartment.
The president, Yoon Seok-Youl, ordered government officials to evacuate residents of risk zones and encouraged businesses to allow their employees to have flexible work schedules on Tuesday morning.
“Nothing is more precious than life and security. The government will carefully manage the situation of heavy rain,” he wrote on his Facebook account.
Daily life in South Korea was still strongly disrupted on Tuesday, with many roads and tunnels closed for security reasons, reported Yonhap.
