Deadly underpass flooding in South Korea ‘could have been prevented,’ official inquiry finds

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Deadly underpass flooding in South Korea ‘could have been prevented,’ official inquiry finds
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The river’s banks wrecked by the rain were temporary installments that did not meet safety standards. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Office for Government Policy Coordination in a press briefing said its 10-day inquiry found

The underpass in Osong, a city near the government complex in North Chungcheong Province, was completely submerged in the morning of July 15 about five minutes after the record downpour broke down a nearby river’s banks. No police were dispatched to the site despite at least two 112 calls having been made about an hour and a half and 42 minutes before the flooding, respectively. The inquiry found that the police then entered the calls into the internal system as if dispatches had been made.

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