Vacationers flocked to the sea and valleys in the scorching heat.
There were also water accidents스포츠토토.
Four people were killed and one missing over the weekend.
This is reporter Kim Hyun-ji.
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Firefighters on rubber boats cut through the current to search.
“We will conduct a detailed search in the direction of Palbongsan Amusement Park.”
A woman in her 40s who was camping with an acquaintance in Hongcheon River, Gangwon-do, went missing.
[Firefighting official]
“I received a report like this saying ‘a person has fallen and is drifting away and can’t be seen.'”
Police are investigating the circumstances of the accident based on eyewitness statements that the woman suffered an accident while trying to test whether a dog could help a person in danger.
In another river in Hongcheon-gun, a man in his 60s drowned and died. .
A man who was swept away by the rapids while playing in the water was rescued from cardiac arrest, but eventually died.
At a beach in Yangyang, a man in his 40s died while playing in the water, and in a valley in Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi Province, three men and women in their 30s who were not wearing life jackets fell into the water and one man died.
One lifeguard died at a beach in Ulsan.
A male lifeguard in his 20s who was put into a swimming competition held at Jinha Beach in Ulju-gun was found unconscious on the sea.
[Eyewitness]
“If you do cardiopulmonary resuscitation and fall into the water, if you do cardiopulmonary resuscitation, (water) comes back up. That friend was even wearing a suit (wetsuit).”
Police are investigating the exact cause of death, believing that the dead man went into the water to find a teenage participant’s goggles.
