Mudfow in Seoul

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Mudfow in Seoul

South Korea is making huge efforts to recover from the heaviest rainfall in decades, that have provoked landslides and flooding, claiming the lives of 42 people, while others went missing or were stranded.

The rain has being pouring down for two days in South Korea, and on Thursday firefighters, soldiers and other emergency workers were searching for the missing while attempting to free the stranded communities cut off from the world by landslide or by heavy rain.

Military officials were attempting on Thursday to retrieve explosives swept away by the storm. An entire ammunition depot was collapsed under a landslide, and the army succeeded in retrieving only half of the ammunition, including 93 land mines.

Korean War-era land mines dislodged by the storm were also retrieved, but the military warned the people that ten were still unaccounted for, and the chances to find them were slim.

Rainfall in Seoul

The death toll increased by the hour, including 10 university students who volunteered at a school, and a woman who drowned as she was investigating the flooding in the basement of her house.

At least 17 were killed on the hillside areas of Seoul by the cascading mudflows, while residential buildings were swept away by the landslide in a city nearby Seoul.

A river overflowed outside the capital killing seven, while a factory roof collapsed killing three workers and injuring two.

Seoul is a city paralyzed by the deluge, with schools and store closed, with subways flooded, and pedestrians knocked of their feet by torrents of water. According to reports 700 houses and 4,000 vehicles were reported submerged.

President Lee Myung-bak visited the area, urging the citizens to remain calm, assuring them that the state would make everything in their power to ensure security measures and a swift recovery from this predicament that has hit the nation.

Weather forecasts show that the danger still exists and that on Friday rain could fall again, even though not at the same intensity as it had the days before.

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