SEOUL, Aug 11 (NNN-YONHAP) – One man was killed and another went missing, after this year’s typhoon Khanun cut through South Korea, the authorities said today.
The typhoon, the sixth, hit land on the country’s south-eastern coast yesterday morning, bringing heavy rains and strong winds across the country, according to the central disaster and safety countermeasures headquarters.
The tropical storm plowed through the country from south to north for about 16 hours until 3.00 a.m. local time (1800 GMT Thursday), moving northward and out of the country.
A 67-year-old man was found in cardiac arrest near a stream, in the south-eastern city of Daegu yesterday afternoon. He was taken to a hospital and eventually died.
Another man in a wheelchair went missing in the same city, yesterday afternoon, after falling into a flooded stream.
The typhoon brought about 361 facility damages across the country, including 184 cases at public facilities and 177 cases at private facilities, such as, the flooding of roads and houses.
A total of 46,484 households suffered power outages, but 98.4 percent of them recovered power supply.
The typhoon temporarily evacuated 15,862 people, among whom 9,741 had returned home.– NNN-YONHAP
