South Korea rainstorm triggered debris flow! 12 dead, 10 missing South Korea | rainstorm | mud rock flow
According to the CCTV news client, the continuous rainstorm in South Korea recently triggered mudslides and landslides. On the 15th local time, South Korea's Gyeongsangbuk Fire Headquarters and Gyeongsangbuk Police Department reported that as of 12:00 on the same day, 12 people had been killed, 10 missing and 2 injured in the area due to the rainstorm.
The Gyeongsangbuk do Fire Headquarters has issued orders to respond to the second phase and deployed over 400 rescue personnel and nearly 150 equipment to carry out rescue work.
Earlier in the day, the South Korean Central Disaster Security Countermeasures Headquarters reported that as of 11:00 a.m., the continuous rainstorm in South Korea had caused seven deaths, three missing and seven injured. The 10 missing persons caused by landslides in Liquan and Wenqing areas of Gyeongsangbuk do are not yet included in the statistics, so it is expected that the casualties will further expand.
Continuous rainfall in South Korea triggers mudslides
Nearly 10000 households have power outages in their homes
Affected by consecutive days of rainfall, a mudslide has occurred in Gyeongsangbuk do, southeastern South Korea. A woman in her 60s in Qingyang County, Zhongqing South Road was buried in a mudslide. Rescue workers rescued her and found her in a state of cardiac arrest. She has been taken to the hospital for treatment.
Several areas in Gyeongsangbuk do have experienced power outages, with nearly 10000 households experiencing power outages. Several hundred households living in mountainous areas have also been evacuated in some areas.
In addition, a reservoir located in Huaishan County, Chungcheongbuk do experienced a surge in water level and an overflow occurred at 6:30 am on the 15th. Huaishan County has issued an emergency evacuation order to residents in the downstream area of the reservoir, and over a thousand residents have been evacuated urgently.
Rainstorm across South Korea
The government has previously raised the crisis alert to the highest level
On the 13th local time, South Korea experienced heavy rainfall throughout the country. The Ministry of Administrative Security of the Republic of Korea issued a special rainstorm warning to the capital circle and the central region in the afternoon of that day, and then raised the crisis warning from the "alert" level to the highest "serious" level that night. The response level of the South Korean Central Disaster Safety Countermeasure Headquarters has also been raised from the second stage to the third stage.
According to the South Korean Meteorological Agency's forecast, Seoul, Incheon, northern Gyeonggi do, and inland and mountainous areas in the central northern part of Gangwon do will experience heavy rainfall before the morning of the 14th. The southern part of Gyeonggi do, inland and mountainous areas in the southern part of Gangwon do, and Chungcheong area will experience heavy rainfall accompanied by strong winds and lightning from the evening of the 13th to the 15th, with hourly precipitation of up to 30 to 80 millimeters.
The Central Disaster Safety Countermeasure Headquarters recommends that local governments enter the highest level of emergency work and mobilize all forces, including the military, to carry out post disaster repair work.