{"id":56711,"date":"2023-07-16T21:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T12:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/jul\/16\/rescuers-try-to-reach-people-stuck-in-flooded-tunnel-in-south-korea-video"},"modified":"2023-07-16T21:27:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T12:27:36","slug":"rescuers-try-to-reach-people-stuck-in-flooded-tunnel-in-south-korea-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56711","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers try to reach people stuck in flooded tunnel in South Korea \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency workers are continuing their efforts to rescue people trapped in a tunnel that flooded when a river burst its banks in Cheongju. Water surged into the underpass, trapping an unknown number of individuals and several cars. Rescue teams were trying to drain the tunnel on Sunday to reach them. The interior ministry said that at least 37 people across the country had died as a result of heavy rainfall, which caused flooding and landslides<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/15\/torrential-rain-batters-south-korea-triggering-landslides-and-leaving-seven-dead\">South Korea floods leave dozens dead as rescuers scramble to find tunnel victims<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/jul\/16\/rescuers-try-to-reach-people-stuck-in-flooded-tunnel-in-south-korea-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency workers are continuing their efforts to rescue people trapped in a tunnel that flooded when a river burst its banks in Cheongju. Water surged into the underpass, trapping an unknown number of individuals and several cars. Rescue teams were tr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,455,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56729,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56711\/revisions\/56729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}