At least 10 others are still missing and more than 7,800 have been evacuated from their homes. About 220 highways have been closed and all rail transport has been suspended.
The death toll of the floods and landslides recorded in recent hours due to heavy rain in South Korea has risen to 37, while another ten people remain missing and more than 7,800 have been evacuated from their homes.
According to information gathered by the South Korean news agency Yonhap, the dead include seven people whose bodies were recovered from the inside a bus that got stuck in an underground tunnel in the city of Osong, located in North Chungcheong Province (center).
The tunnel, some 700 meters long, was flooded during the day on Saturday after a river in the area overflowed after the dikes were flooded by the flooding caused by the Torrential rain. There are expected to be more casualties as several people believed to have been in the trapped vehicles remain missing.
The province of North Gyeongsang It has been hardest hit by the situation, with 17 dead and more than 2,300 evacuated due to the rain, which has also led to the closure of nearly 220 roads and the halting of all rail transport.
Source: EITB
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