At least seven people have been killed and dozens more injured in floods after heavy rains in the city of Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
Streets turned into overflowing rivers and hundreds of houses were damaged in several districts of the metropolis, whose population is close to twenty-six million people.
The heavy rains brought 100 millimeters of rainwater in less than an hour, and the drainage systems of the big city collapsed in whole districts.
Rescue teams reached some of the affected areas and thousands were evacuated from their homes in the low-lying areas close to the river.
Cleaning crews worked during the morning hours to restore public transportation to order and remove waste accumulated due to the heavy floods.
In addition, heavy rains also disrupted traffic in the large port city of Incheon and caused a partial shutdown of the country's largest international airport located near the city's beaches.
Photos and videos shared on social media showed flooded streets in the upscale Gangnam district in the center of the capital, completely flooded subway stations and cars submerged in rainwater.
These are the heaviest summer rains that have hit the East Asian country in decades and the country's meteorological service has warned against the continuation of the rains today and tomorrow.
A sinkhole that opened as a result of floods in Seoul, South Korea, photo: AFP
"I was near the Gangnam subway station when the rain suddenly increased, with lightning and thunder. Within minutes the train station, buses and cars around me were completely flooded. I had to take a hotel nearby because I had nowhere to go and no way to get home," Doug-he told me. , a local businessman for the local news agency "Yonhap".
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