Firefighters try to rescue a 14-month-old baby buried in a mudslide in the southeastern city of Yeongju on Friday. (Gyeongbuk Fire Service Headquarters)
A 14-month-old girl was killed in a landslide in Yeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, early Friday morning, after torrential rainfall battered a hillside village overnight.
According to the local police and fire service, the infant was the last person rescued from a house in Sangmang-dong, Yeongju, where three generations of her family resided. Nine other members of the family escaped or were rescued safely.
The landslide occurred at around 4:43 a.m. and the child was found in a state of cardiac arrest at around 6:40 a.m., after two hours of rescue work.
Some 42 residents of the village have been evacuated.
A heavy rain warning has been issued in Yeongju, where the official precipitation record has reached 161 millimeters since Thursday.
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