Casualties from typhoon

One person died and another went missing after the typhoon 'Khanun' battered South Korea. An entire village is submerged in muddy water. Rescue workers are conducting a search operation in a boat.

This village in Gunwi-gun County, Daegu, became submerged at around Thursday noon. A levee where three streams join collapsed in a matter of seconds as the streams overflowed due to some 100mm of rain. Most of the ten households in the village had been evacuated early on, but a 67-year-old man was swept away by the current.

He was found unresponsive under a bridge about 500m from the village one hour after it was inundated. The man was taken to hospital but eventually passed away. Although the situation was serious enough and a flood warning had been issued.