South Korea: One killed in Geoje landslide as record rains hit southern region - BBC News

It comes as large swathes of East and South East Asia have been pummelled by dats of heavy rain.

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Geoje received more than 400mm of rain overnight

Torrential rains have pummelled South Korea's Gyeongsang province, triggering a landslide that killed one person and wounded two others.

The landslide buried the first floor of an apartment building in the south-eastern city of Geoje on Monday morning. Rescuers pulled out three people, one of whom was later declared dead, local media report.

This comes as record rainfall triggered by back-to-back storms caused widespread flooding and landslides in parts of China, Japan and the Philippines.

Geoje city saw 124.5mm of rain in a one-hour period, the highest since South Korea's meteorological agency started keeping records for the city in 1972.