Flash floods brought on by heavy rain in southern South Korea have swallowed a moving bus, leading to the death of five people near the southern city of Changwon, in South Korea.Officials say that four people were killed after heavy rain battered parts of the Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, saying that the victims drowned in their car after driving through a submerged city underpass.
An engineer is also believed to be missing after checking basement power lines in a flooded building.
Monday’s heavy rain also disrupted train services in Busan, and a nuclear power plant was forced to halt operations after a cooling facility became flooded. Weather officials said that more heavy rain was forecast.
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