{"id":1074,"date":"2024-07-11T02:01:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T02:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2024-07-11T02:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T02:01:41","slug":"five-people-killed-and-one-missing-in-south-central-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Five people killed and one missing in south-central South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1075 aligncenter\" title=\"SKOREA-WEATHER-FLOOD-080026\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/SKOREA-WEATHER-FLOOD-080026.jpg\" alt=\"SKOREA-WEATHER-FLOOD-080026\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/SKOREA-WEATHER-FLOOD-080026.jpg 800w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/SKOREA-WEATHER-FLOOD-080026-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/SKOREA-WEATHER-FLOOD-080026-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At least five people were killed and one was missing in south-central South Korea after extreme rains hit the country early Wednesday (July 10) , including Chung Ching Road and Jeolla Jong-eun.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s Yonhap news agency reported that rainfall in Gunsan province had reached 146 millimeters per hour, the highest since records began. The early morning rainfall in Shuchuan County, South Chungqing Road, reached 111.5 mm per hour.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean meteorological officials said the highest levels of rainfall were recorded in Cam Son, South Chungcheong Province, Chung Fung Ning, North Chungcheong Province and the mountains of North Jeolla Province, AFP reported, \u201cThis amount of rainfall is only expected to occur every 200 years if the intensity of rainfall is calculated on a regional basis.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden heavy rain at night caused the collapse of houses in the affected areas, trapped people, crops and roads were flooded, but also caused casualties and missing. Torrential rain also led to some of South Korea&#8217;s railway trains, passenger ships suspended, some flights suspended or delayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ask people not to go to underground car parks, underground tunnels and streams during heavy rains,\u201d Interior Minister Lee sang-min said in a statement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five people were killed and one was missing in south-central South Korea after extreme rains hit the country early Wednesday (July 10) , including Chung Ching Road and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,267],"tags":[346],"views":71,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}