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Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, it started raining hard as a typhoon approached early in the morning.

Witnesses say the river next to the apartment swelled quickly, and the overflow from there filled the parking lot and people couldn't afford to escape.



The reason why the damage was so great was covered by reporter Shin Jeong-eun.



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Indeok-dong, southern Pohang-si, where the damage was particularly concentrated in the Pohang area, where it rained at a maximum rate of 100mm per hour.



At that time, the CCTV screen captured the moment when the 'cold stream', a river only 30 meters away from the damaged apartment, overflowed.



The six-lane round-trip road is completely submerged in about 20 minutes, and even firefighting vehicles that have been dispatched after receiving a report cannot easily access it.



Residents testify of the situation at the time that river water flooded the complex around 6 am.



[Soon-nyeo Noh/Apartment resident: I came out around 6:30, so I’m already like this…

I couldn't get out because it was overflowing, because it was so full that the people who went underground probably couldn't get out



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However, the water is filled up to the ceiling height.



At around 5:20 a.m., a notice from the apartment management office was sent to remove vehicles parked in the basement because the river could overflow. It was an action, the management office explained.



[Apartment management office official: (drainage) The pump worked well, the underground parking lot did not fill with water, and it was well controlled.

That's why I said 'take out the car', but there was no way, water just went in all at once.

About 10 minutes.]



Some residents said they were very anxious before the accident because they were afraid that the river would overflow.



[Apartment resident: In the past, it didn't overflow, but there is no place for water to go because there are many waterside parks that block the waterway during construction.

This is dangerous, I went and talked about it before.] The city of



Pohang announced that they would investigate the exact cause of the accident as soon as the urgent typhoon damage management is completed.



(Video coverage: Cho Chang-hyun, video editing: Hwang Ji-young)