SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday blamed authorities’ failure to comply with catastrophe response guidelines because the dying toll from days of torrential rain grew to 39, together with a dozen individuals discovered useless in a submerged underpass.
The rains have pummelled the nation’s central and southern areas since Thursday because the wet season that began in late June reaches its peak. The inside ministry has additionally reported 9 individuals lacking and 34 injured throughout the nation.
Twelve deaths, together with three our bodies retrieved in a single day, occurred in a tunnel within the central metropolis of Cheongju, the place 16 automobiles, together with a bus, had been swamped by a flash flood on Saturday after a river levee collapsed. 9 others had been harm.
The incident fuelled questions over South Korea‘s efforts to forestall and reply to flood injury. Some drivers who use the highway often blamedthe authorities for failing to ban entry to the underpass although floods had been broadly forecast.
Floods have claimed dozens of lives throughout latest wet seasons as climate patterns have grow to be extra excessive.
The federal government final yr vowed to take steps to raised address local weather change-induced disasters after the heaviest downpours in 115 years pounded Seoul, together with the glitzy district of Gangnam, leaving no less than 14 useless and flooding subways, roads and houses.
Yoon, simply again from an abroad journey, on Monday convened an intra-agency assembly on catastrophe response and mentioned the scenario was made worse due to poor administration of weak areas.
“We have repeatedly emphasised entry management over harmful areas and preemptive evacuation since final yr, but when primary ideas of catastrophe response will not be saved on the spot, it’s tough to make sure public security,” Yoon advised the assembly.
He known as for authorities to make the utmost effort to rescue victims and vowed assist for restoration work and affected households, together with designating flood-hit areas as particular catastrophe zones.
The rains have pummelled the nation’s central and southern areas since Thursday because the wet season that began in late June reaches its peak. The inside ministry has additionally reported 9 individuals lacking and 34 injured throughout the nation.
Twelve deaths, together with three our bodies retrieved in a single day, occurred in a tunnel within the central metropolis of Cheongju, the place 16 automobiles, together with a bus, had been swamped by a flash flood on Saturday after a river levee collapsed. 9 others had been harm.
The incident fuelled questions over South Korea‘s efforts to forestall and reply to flood injury. Some drivers who use the highway often blamedthe authorities for failing to ban entry to the underpass although floods had been broadly forecast.
Floods have claimed dozens of lives throughout latest wet seasons as climate patterns have grow to be extra excessive.
The federal government final yr vowed to take steps to raised address local weather change-induced disasters after the heaviest downpours in 115 years pounded Seoul, together with the glitzy district of Gangnam, leaving no less than 14 useless and flooding subways, roads and houses.
Yoon, simply again from an abroad journey, on Monday convened an intra-agency assembly on catastrophe response and mentioned the scenario was made worse due to poor administration of weak areas.
“We have repeatedly emphasised entry management over harmful areas and preemptive evacuation since final yr, but when primary ideas of catastrophe response will not be saved on the spot, it’s tough to make sure public security,” Yoon advised the assembly.
He known as for authorities to make the utmost effort to rescue victims and vowed assist for restoration work and affected households, together with designating flood-hit areas as particular catastrophe zones.
