KOREAN FLOODS
Thousands Homeless (N.Z.P-A.-Reuter—Copyright) SEOUL, August 28 National police in Seoul reported that 64 persons were found drowned today in Sunchon, the port city on the southern coast of Korea, after the banks of a river swollen by torrential rains collapsed. Police said river waters inundated more than 2000 houses and made thousands of Sunchon citizens homeless in a few hours. Twenty-six persons were missing. Reports reaching Seoul from Sunchon said about twothirds of the city, which has a population of 60,000, was flooded. The central meteorological observatory in Seoul said the rainfall in the city and its neighbouring area between 5.30 a m. yesterday and 6 a.m today amounted to six and a half inches.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29913, 29 August 1962, Page 13
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117KOREAN FLOODS Press, Volume CI, Issue 29913, 29 August 1962, Page 13
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