폭우로 사망 31명, 실종 11명...이재민 6천명 육박
And the deadly torrential rain pounded central and southern parts of South Korea over the weekend.
Over the past one week period alone, 13 people died and two went missing, and thousands of people were forced to leave their homes.
Lee Kyung-eun with the details.
Due to the past nine days of heavy monsoon rain in South Korea, 31 people have died and 11 have gone missing.
Nearly half of the casualties were reported over the last weekend when torrential rain hammered the central and southern part of the country.
Authorities say 13 people died and 2 went missing from Friday to Sunday,...while some 37-hundred had to evacuate.
That adds up to six-thousand evacuees across the country,...as of Sunday.
The country's southwestern Jeollabuk-do Province is among the hardest-hit areas.
Floods inundated villages near the Seomjingang River after the river broke its banks.
In the southern part of Jeolla-do Province, much of Gokseoung County is now covered with mud due to a massive landslide.
In Gyeongsangnam-do Province, people are dealing with an enormous amount of trash that flowed in due to the waterbomb.
Recovery work is underway in the affected areas.
Among some 13-thousand facilities that have been destroyed, including farmland,...about two-thirds have received emergency recovery aid.
To speed up efforts, Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki is urging the government to provide aid immediately, even calling for the use of extra budget if necessary.
Currently, families living in areas recently declared so-called "Special Disaster Zone" can receive about 8-hundred U.S. dollars if their homes are flooded,...54-hundred dollars in case of partial destruction, and some 10-thousand dollars for total destruction.
To further ease the burden on the people, he ordered payment dates for electricity bills, health insurance, and national pensions be delayed.
Lee Kyung-eun, Arirang News.
