South Korea rain death toll hits 17, with 11 missing

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Two people died while five were missing in the South Korean county of Gapyeong on Sunday (July 20) after a landslide engulfed houses and campsites and flooding swept away vehicles amid heavy rainfall.  That brought the nationwide death toll to 17, with 11 people missing, since the rain began on Wednesday, forcing more than 13,000 people to evacuate.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00heavy rain in south korea has killed at least 17 people in recent days government records showed

00:07sunday while 11 remain unaccounted for in the intense downpours south korea typically experiences

00:14monsoon rains in july and is usually well prepared but this week the country's southern regions were

00:20hit with some of the heaviest hourly rainfall on record there was also a dangerous deluge in the

00:25north early sunday with close to 170 millimeters of rain hitting gapyong county in gyeonggi province

00:31east of the capital seoul leaving at least two dead and five missing

00:35the number of casuals

01:05casualties rose throughout the day as bodies of those previously reported missing many swept away

01:10in landslides were recovered most of the deaths occurred in the southern county of sancheon which

01:16has seen nearly 800 millimeters of rain since wednesday south korean president lee jae-myung

01:22ordered a swift assessment of the damage and the prompt designation of special disaster zones to

01:28increase state support the government weather forecaster said the rainfall is likely to stop

01:32on sunday and be followed by a heat wave

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