In S. Korea, four dead in record torrential rains seen once every 200 years

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In S. Korea, four dead in record torrential rains seen once every 200 years
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SEOUL, July 10 — Parts of South Korea were battered by record rainfall typically seen just once every 200 years, the country’s weather agency told AFP Wednesday, with the...

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Govt seeks harsher penalties for mule account holders, renters in crackdown on scams; jail term up to 10 years, RM150,000 fineThree areas — Geumsan in South Chungcheong, Chupungnyeong in North Chungcheong and Gunsan in North Jeolla — experienced some of the heaviest hourly downpours on record, weather department data showed. Picture from Facebook/Westernpacificweather.

In Gunsan, 131.7 mm of rain fell within one hour early Wednesday — more than 10 per cent of the area’s average annual precipitation. One man in a car, returning home from tending to his cattle, was swept into a stream — still inside his vehicle — in North Chungcheong. His body was retrieved nearly three hours later. A man in his 70s died after a house collapsed in a landslide in Seocheon, the news agency reported.“I ask that people refrain from going to underground parking spaces, underpasses and streams during heavy rainfall,” Interior Minister Lee Sang-min said in a statement.

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