South Korea’s Central Disaster Safety Countermeasures Headquarters announced on Tuesday (9th) that as of 6:00 a.m., torrential rain had killed 8 people in central areas such as the metropolitan area, including two Chinese workers who were buried in mudslides and electrocuted while working in the rain. Six people were missing and nine were injured, and the Ministry of Administration and Security raised the storm crisis alert from alert to severe at 1 a.m.
According to Korean media reports, heavy rain occurred in the metropolitan area. The accumulated rainfall in Xindafang-dong, Dongjak District, Seoul from 0:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. on Monday (8th) reached 422 mm, and the accumulated rainfall exceeded 300 mm in many places. A total of 8 roads in the metropolitan area were flooded, and the section from Changdong to Seoul Station on Line 4 and the Gyeongbu Line at Geumcheon-gu Office Station was temporarily suspended, and traffic was severely blocked. Disasters such as landslides.
As of 6 a.m. Tuesday, 650 of the 775 disaster-hit facilities had been repaired. Firefighters rescued 88 people trapped in rivers in central regions such as Gyeonggi-do and cleared roadblocks. Most of the affected people in Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province have been transferred to schools and gymnasiums. Among them, 273 victims in Dongjak District, Seoul City and Gwangmyeong City, Gyeonggi Province and other places temporarily took refuge in residential centers and other places.
South Korean President Yoon Sek-yue presided over an emergency flood control meeting on Tuesday to check the disaster situation in various places and asked relevant departments to quickly start post-flood recovery work. He also expressed regret for the casualties caused by the overnight heavy rain.
