China News Service, August 6th. According to Korean media reports, South Korea’s Central Disaster Safety Countermeasures Headquarters reported on the 6th that as of 6 a.m. local time, heavy rains in the central region had caused 16 deaths and 11 missing, and the number of victims increased to 1,648. The scale of the disaster continued to expand.
According to reports, the number of damaged facilities increased to 5,177, including 2,617 private facilities and 2,560 public facilities. The damaged area of farmland increased to 8065 hectares, of which 7,231 hectares were flooded.
Traffic control is still implemented on 39 highways in Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, Chungcheongbuk-do, Chungcheongnam-do and other places, and three railways of Chungbuk Line, Taebaek Line and Yeongdong Line are still in suspension.
At present, more than 53,667 civil servants, firefighters, police and volunteers have been invested in emergency repairs.
On the other hand, the Han River Flood Control Station of the Ministry of Environment of South Korea issued a flood warning for the Seoul Han River Bridge at 11 am local time on the 6th. This is the first flood warning for the basin since July 28, 2011.
As of 11:30 in the morning local time, the water level near the Han River Bridge reached 8.38 meters, close to the 8.5 meters of the flood warning "Attention" level. Some areas of Seoul may suffer from flooding, which is worrying.
According to the report, the "alert" level of the Han River Bridge flood warning is 10.5 meters, and the "serious" level is 13.3 meters. The water level of the Han River reached 11.76 meters on July 18, 1925, the highest record so far.