South Korea Rain: The fatalities of the week rises to 11 with more missing | South Korea

In South Korea, at least one person was killed and five were missing in heavy downpours, said officials in the middle of heavy rain, floods and landslides, which gave the number of fatalities on 11 of heavy rainfall that whipped the country for a week.

According to the disaster authorities, which in the province of Gyeonggi, 70 km east of Seoul east of Seoul east of Seoul, the district of Gyeonggi, almost 170 mm rain, met in Gyeonggi, 70 km east of Seoul.

“We expect at least four to be missing on a dead man in Gapyeong,” said an official of the Interior Ministry.

According to official data, the confirmed number of deaths from the five -day deluge was to 11th scientists say that climate change has made more frequent and more intensive weather events worldwide.

The downpour started on Wednesday and missed eight people in the southern and central country on Sunday from 6 p.m.

The heavy rain, which had previously whipped the southern parts of South Korea, affected the northern parts of the country on Sunday morning, the government said.

A woman in the 70s was killed when her house collapsed in a landslide in Gapyeong on Sunday around 4.40 a.m., the Yonhap news agency reported.

Most deaths were taken in the southern county of Sanchong, which has almost 800 mm rain since Wednesday.

South Korea usually experiences monsoons in July and is usually well prepared. But this week the southern regions were hit by particularly intensive rains, with some of the most severe hourly rainfall showing how official weather data showed.

In 2022, South Korea was rain and flooding that killed at least 11 people.