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Heavy downpours are lashing parts of North Jeolla Province and South Chungcheong Province. Flooding damage has been reported consecutively, centered around the Gwangju and South Jeolla regions, where torrential rains exceeding 100mm per hour pounded the area. Meanwhile, an evacuation order has been issued for residents in Gochang County, North Jeolla Province.
Reporter Park Hyeon-seok has the details.
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The front yard of a house has turned into a rushing river amid the pouring rain, as rescue workers grab onto ropes and push through the fierce currents.
At around 8:10 a.m. today (August 31), two residents trapped by overflowing water in front of their home in Baeksu-eup, Yeonggwang-gun, South Jeolla-Gwangju, were rescued.
Yeonggwang in South Jeolla-Gwangju, which was hit by torrential downpours reaching 107.5mm per hour as of 5:00 a.m. today, received a flurry of reports regarding flooded roads and homes.
An evacuation order was issued for Gochang County, North Jeolla Province, which has been battered by heavy rain exceeding 225mm over the past two days.
At around 9:30 a.m. today, Gochang County issued an emergency text message warning of expected floods in areas such as Jujincheon and Samincheon streams in Asan-myeon, ordering nearby residents to evacuate to safe locations.
Earlier, the Yeongsan River Flood Control Center also issued a flood warning for the Bujeong Bridge area of Jujincheon Stream starting at 9:10 a.m., urging precautions against potential damage.
The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters announced that as of 6:00 a.m. today, 432 cases of damage, including flooded roads and homes, have been reported.
The headquarters emphasized, "While maintaining Level 1 emergency duty, we will thoroughly manage the situation through inspections and access controls in hazardous areas."
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Accidents on rainy roads also continued.
At around 9:30 p.m. last night, a secondary traffic accident occurred near the Suncheon Tunnel 2 on the Honam Expressway bound for Gwangju in Suncheon, South Jeolla Province, causing a passenger car to overturn.
According to police investigations, the driver of a passenger car that slipped on the rainy road and hit a roadside structure had gotten out of the vehicle after stopping, when an express bus failed to notice and crashed into the car, causing it to flip over.
The accident left the driver of the passenger car, a woman in her 40s, with minor injuries, and she received medical treatment.
(Video Editing: Shin Se-eun)
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