South Korea is at the peak of its summer monsoon season.
RESCUERS HAVE BATTLED to reach people trapped in a flooded tunnel in South Korea, where at least 33 people have died and 10 are missing after heavy rains caused flooding and landslides.
Rescue workers were still struggling to reach more than 10 cars trapped in a 430-metre underground tunnel in Cheongju, North Chungcheong province, the ministry said. Images broadcast on local television showed a torrential stream of water from a nearby river that had burst its banks flooding into the tunnel, as rescue workers struggled to use boats to get to people inside.‘Grave’ danger South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is currently on an overseas trip, held an emergency meeting with his aides on the government’s response to the heavy rains and flooding, his office said.
Some of the people who have been reported missing were swept away when a river overflowed in the province, the interior ministry said. Scientists say climate change has made weather events around the world more extreme and more frequent.
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