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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Justin McCurry in Tokyo, and agencies

South Korea floods: president urges climate crisis action as death toll hits 40

Rescuers in South Korea have recovered a total of 13 bodies from a flooded road tunnel in a central city, as the death toll from flash floods and landslides triggered by days of heavy rain rose to at least 40 on Monday.

The devastation prompted the country’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, to warn that the climate crisis had made extreme weather a fact of life.

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