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Missing people are being discovered one after another at the site of the flooding in the underground parking lot of the Pohang apartment.
At 9:41 pm, an hour and a half after the first survivor was rescued, a woman in her 50s was rescued alive.
However, shortly after the rescue of the second survivor, three people were found in cardiac arrest one after another.
A reporter is out at the flooding site.
Reporter Park Seong-ah
Please tell me about the rescue of the missing person.
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Yes. I am at the site of the flooded underground parking lot in Indeok-dong, Pohang-si.
About an hour ago, at 9:41 a.m., another missing person was found alive.
I am a 50-year-old woman, Mr. Kim.
The second rescuer was said to be shivering from hypothermia, although his consciousness was relatively clear.
When the survivors were rescued, the residents who were watching the scene cheered and clapped in unison.
The woman was taken to a nearby hospital and is being treated.
However, after 10 p.m., missing persons were found one after another in cardiac arrest.
One woman in her 60s, one woman who is estimated to be in her 50s, and one male in her 80s.
The fire department is checking personal information to see if those who are in cardiac arrest are the same person as the missing person who was reported missing.
Prior to this, around 8:15 p.m., a 39-year-old man was rescued alive.
The fire department rescued a man while carrying out rescue operations with 40% of the water in the apartment’s underground parking lot drained, took first aid and transported him to the hospital.
According to the fire department, the man had survived by relying on the beams on the ceiling of the underground parking lot and the space between the beams.
Rescue operations are accelerating as missing persons are found one after another.
The fire department mobilizes two special pumps to drain cold water from the parking lot, and the Gyeongbuk 119 Special Response Team, established in July, is conducting a search for missing persons in the water.
So far, this is Park Seong-ah from MBC News at the flooding site in Indeok-dong, Pohang.
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