폭우로 사흘간 최소 12명 사망•13명 실종…농경지 3천622㏊ 피해<br /><br />Torrential rainfall that has been battering the country for the last three days have caused at least six deaths on Monday and serious damage to South Korea.<br />Eum Ji-young reports.<br />Torrential rain has inundated various regions in the captial and the central regions of South Korea over the last three days,...causing casualties and large-scale damage.<br />According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters as of 7:30 PM on Monday, at least six people had died on Monday alone.<br />This brings the total death toll to 12, while 13 others are unaccounted for.<br />The casualties were mostly due to flooding and landslides.<br />At a manufacturing plant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggido-Province, three people died due to a landslide.<br />Three others were killed and one is presumed to be missing at a tourist lodging in Gyeonggi-do Province .<br />Five more people are missing, including a man in his 50s in Asan, Chungcheongnam-do Province.<br />Roughly 17-hundred people had to temporarily evacuate their homes due to flooding, although some of these people have now returned home.<br />More than 13-hundred of them are in Gyeonggi-do Province and another 300 were in Chungcheongbuk-do Province.<br />More than 24-hundred public and private facilities have been damaged during the last three days.<br />Also more than 36-hundred hectares of farmlands were inundated.<br />The Korea Forest Service has heightened the landslide warning level to its third highest level out of four in six provinces including Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Gangwon-do and Chungcheongbuk-do Provinces.<br />The government is focusing on searching for the missing,... and other recovery efforts are also ongoing.<br />Eum Ji-young, Arirang News.<br />
