Deadly Landslide in South Korea as Manila Streets Flood

Torrential rains across southern South Korea have left at least one person dead and four others injured, according to the country's Interior and Safety Ministry. The sole fatality occurred when a landslide struck an apartment building in the southern city of Geoje on Monday. Two of the injured were in Geoje, with the remaining two in nearby cities.

Since Saturday, the downpours have forced around 390 residents to evacuate to safer areas and knocked out power to roughly 3,580 homes, the ministry reported.

Meanwhile, in the Philippines, heavy monsoon rains flooded major thoroughfares and disrupted traffic in metropolitan Manila and a dozen surrounding provinces on Monday. The government suspended work and cancelled classes at all levels starting at noon, with schools instructed to shift to online learning.

The Philippines has been battered by intermittent monsoon rains for about three weeks, with a storm lashing the northern Luzon region two weeks ago. That storm and subsequent rains have left at least 23 people dead, mostly from landslides and floods, and affected about 5 million people. Nearly 25,000 remain in government emergency shelters in several northern provinces, according to the Office of Civil Defense.

Among the dead were 10 people, including children, whose homes were buried by an August 9 landslide in the mountain resort city of Baguio. Rescuers managed to pull three others alive from the mud, rocks, and debris that cascaded down a mountainside while residents slept.