SEOUL: North Korean state media said on Sunday (Sep 8) five people had been killed in a powerful typhoon that destroyed farmland and damaged ...
SEOUL: North Korean state media said on Sunday five people had been killed in a powerful typhoon that destroyed farmland and damaged hundreds of buildings.
"According to data available from the State Emergency Disaster Committee, five persons were dead and three persons injured. The injured persons are now under treatment at hospitals," KCNA said. Crops were wiped out or damaged in 46,000 hectares of farmland - roughly the area of the small European country of Andorra - the report said, adding that recovery efforts were underway.It came after South Korea's disaster agency reported three deaths caused by the same typhoon, according to Yonhap news agency.
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