At least nine people are dead and others missing after heavy rain swamped Seoul's metropolitan region. The rain began on Monday morning and had intensified by evening. In one part of the city, it was the most amount of rainfall in eighty years. The weather office has predicted more rainfall in the coming days. (DW News)
Cars and busses can be seen stranded on the flooded roads of Gangnam during record-breaking rainfall on Aug. 8
Torrential rainfall caused the parking lot of an apartment complex in the Daechi neighborhood of Seoul to flood on Aug. 8
Narrow rain clouds cutting across southern Incheon, southern Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, and Gangwon Province caused record downpours that started around 8 pm Monday, resulting in flooding, power outages, and leakages across South Korea. Roads and subway stations on low-lying land south of the Han River in Seoul flooded, the water level reaching up to waist-high and catching commuters headed home from work off guard.
The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters announced that an individual who was clearing up fallen trees in Dongjak District died, presumably from electrocution.
A Chinese electrician in their 50s who was performing electricity work outside a construction site in the Sincheon neighborhood of Siheung, Gyeonggi Province, also died from an electric shock around noon.
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Seoul: Heaviest rains in 80 years, at least nine dead and others missing
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Edit: additional footage of flooded subways, streets, buildings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgZ0xyXJMKQ