South Korea: Seven people die in flooded parking lot

South Korean rescue teams reported the discovery of the bodies of seven people who drowned on Tuesday (06.09.2022) in an underground parking lot in the South Korean city of Pohang that was flooding during the passage of Typhoon Hinnamnor.
In turn, they found in that same subway two survivors, a 39-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman, who were rescued after spending more than 12 hours without being able to leave the parking lot and who are in relatively good condition, the Yonhap agency reported.
These nine people had come down during the early hours of Tuesday to move their vehicles from the parking lot of their residential complex because it was flooding due to the heavy rains that the typhoon dragged. Rescue teams continue to drain the parking lot, although they have indicated that in principle they do not expect to find more people who may have been trapped.
In Pohang, a coastal city about 270 kilometers southeast of Seoul, another 66-year-old woman who also accessed the underground parking lot of her apartment block also died on Tuesday. In total there are 10 dead people and two missing that hinnamnor, the strongest typhoon to hit South Korea, has left as it passes through the southeast of the Asian country.
Hinnamnor, which in addition to torrential rain dragged winds of about 140 kilometers per hour, has left images of supermarkets, streets or parking lots – both underground and outdoor – completely flooded in Pohang, and other major destruction in cities such as Busan, the second city in the country.
This again highlights the infrastructure challenges facing the Asian country at a time when extreme weather events seem to hit the Korean peninsula more and more frequently due to climate change.
In August, historic rainfall flooded entire neighborhoods of central Seoul, killing 16 people, three of them members of the same family who drowned in a basement apartment.

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