Typhoon 'Haishen' Leaves 2 Missing, 5 Injured... 78 Displaced

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[Asia Economy Reporter Oh Hyung-gil] Due to the impact of Typhoon Haishen, the 10th typhoon of the season, 78 people have been displaced, 2 are missing, and 5 have been injured.

Facility damages occurred one after another, including the shutdown of two turbine generators at the Gyeongju Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant, and the damaged agricultural land area reached 3,557 hectares.

According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (CDSCH) on the 7th, as of 7:30 PM, casualties caused by Haishen were recorded as 2 missing and 5 injured.

That morning, a man in his 40s, an employee of a limestone company in Samcheok, Gangwon, went missing after being swept away by a drainage channel while withdrawing after limestone mining, and in Uljin, Gyeongbuk, a resident in his 60s went missing after being caught in a rapid river current while crossing a bridge on a tractor.

Also, in Busan, 5 people were injured, including one resident who sustained minor injuries when a vehicle overturned due to strong winds.

The number of displaced people was corrected from the Gyeongju area to 78 people in 47 households. Among them, 33 people have not yet returned home.

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Facility damages increased to a total of 785 cases, including 423 public facilities and 362 private facilities. Since the tally is still ongoing, the scale of damage may increase further.

Among public facilities, the turbine generators of Units 2 and 3 at the Gyeongju Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant stopped sequentially at 8:38 AM and 9:18 AM, respectively. The CDSCH reported that the turbine generators automatically shut down due to the operation of protective relays triggered by lightning strikes.

There were 80 cases of road flooding, 9 cases of damage to port facilities such as breakwaters, 6 cases related to rivers, 5 cases of slope collapse, and 320 other cases including fallen street trees among public facility damages. The area of crop damage was 3,557 hectares, and damage to vinyl greenhouses was 9 hectares.

Traffic was restricted on 56 roads in Daegu, Gangwon, and Busan, and train operations were suspended on two railway lines: the Yeongdong Line between Yeongju and Gangneung, and the Taebaek Line between Jecheon and Baeksan.

Passenger ship operations were controlled on 87 routes with 114 vessels, and 341 flights were canceled at 11 airports.

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