The rainfall has also forced about 12,780 people to evacuate and left about 28,600 households without power.
During a Cabinet Council meeting Tuesday, President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered officials to mobilize all available resources to rescue any possible additional survivors, assist victims and conduct recovery works.
Yoon said the government plans to designate major rain-stricken areas as special disaster zones to help speed up the recovery.The Defense Ministry separately said it was sending equipment and 11,000 soldiers on Tuesday to support government efforts to find the missing people and restore damages.Article contentIn the southeastern town of Yecheon, eight people remained missing following landslides and swollen water.
Also, 14 fatalities were reported from a tunnel in the central city of Cheongju, where 17 vehicles including a bus were trapped in a flash flood that may have filled up the passageway. Authorities earlier mobilized divers and other workers to rescue survivors and retrieve bodies before they ended searches inside the tunnel on Monday night. The Safety Ministry said that officials were searching for areas near the tunnel on Tuesday.
Severe weather was also affecting many other places around the world. Earlier this month, relentless flooding also deluged parts of India, Japan, China, Turkey and the U.S. Although the destructive floods are occurring in different parts of the world, atmospheric scientists say they have this in common: With climate change, storms are forming in a warmer atmosphere, making extreme rainfall a more frequent reality now.
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