SEOUL. Torrential rains battered parts of South Korea for a third consecutive day, forcing more than 5,000 residents into shelters and leaving at least four people dead, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said on Friday.
Heavy rain warnings remain in place for much of the country’s western and southern regions, with the Korea Meteorological Administration urging extreme caution against landslides and flooding through Saturday.
In the southern city of Gwangju, more than 400 millimetres (16 inches) of rain fell in just 24 hours, marking a new record, the safety ministry said.
The fatalities include two people who were trapped in cars on flooded roads and another who drowned in a basement in South Chungcheong province. One person remains missing.
In a separate incident on Wednesday, a 10-metre-high (33-foot) roadside wall collapsed in Osan, south of Seoul, crushing a moving vehicle and killing the driver, fire officials reported.
President Lee Jae Myung, who has emphasized strengthening the government’s disaster response, is set to convene an emergency meeting on Friday to address the ongoing crisis.
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