One Presumed Missing Person's Body Found in Yecheon... Two Missing Persons Remain

One more body presumed to be a resident missing due to heavy rain and landslides was found in Yecheon-gun, Gyeongbuk Province, raising the death toll from the heavy rain in Gyeongbuk to 25.

Air Force 16th Fighter Wing soldiers are conducting a missing person search operation in cooperation with local firefighters in the Gamcheong-myeon area of Yecheon-gun, Gyeongbuk.
[Photo by Yonhap News]

According to Gyeongbuk Province and the Gyeongbuk Fire Headquarters on the 21st, at around 4:38 p.m. on the 21st, while searching for missing persons near Yongugyo Bridge in Ugye-ri, Yecheon-gun, the Gyeongbuk National University 119 Special Response Team discovered one male body. Rescue authorities transported the body to the hospital. The police plan to take fingerprints at the hospital to identify the body, as decomposition has progressed.

The body is presumed to be a resident missing from Geumgok-ri, Eunpung-myeon, Yecheon-gun. With this, two missing persons remain in Yecheon.

As of 5 p.m. on the same day, casualties from the heavy rain stand at 25 dead (15 in Yecheon, 4 in Yeongju, 4 in Bonghwa, 2 in Mungyeong) and 2 missing (both in Yecheon).

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