South Korea floods and landslides kill 14 after 42 days of rain
by Reuters from Environment | The Guardian on (#56HST)
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Fourteen people have been killed and more than 1,000 forced from their homes as 42 consecutive days of rain, South Korea's longest monsoon in seven years, triggered floods and landslides.
Heavy rain, which has also battered China, Thailand, Myanmar and India, inundated farmland and flooded parts of major highways and bridges in the capital, Seoul.
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