July 16, 2023

At least 31 people have died in South Korea as a result of heavy rain and thousands across the country have been forced to evacuate their homes, Yonhap reported on Sunday. 

South Korea is at the peak of its summer monsoon season, and there has been heavy rainfall for the last three days, triggering widespread flooding and landslides and causing a major dam to overflow.

In the most severely affected areas, "entire houses were swept away whole," one emergency responder told Yonhap.

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