A blast of heavy rain sent landslides barrelling through South Korea's capital and a northern town on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people, including 10 college students doing volunteer work.
The students died as mud and debris engulfed them as they slept in a resort cabin in Chuncheon, about 110 km northeast of Seoul, said an official with the town's fire station.
A married couple and a convenience store owner also died.
About 500 officials and residents worked to rescue people trapped in the mud and wreckage.
Twenty-four people were injured and several buildings destroyed, officials said.
Witnesses interviewed on television likened the sound of the landslide to a massive explosion or a screaming freight train and described the screaming they heard as buildings were carried away by rivers of mud.
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