On the morning of the 24th, a body that had been missing during the recent heavy rain was discovered in Deokhyeon-ri, Sangmyeon, Gapyeong-gun. The body was confirmed to be that of a teenage male who had gone missing from a camping site in Mailli due to a landslide.
According to the police and fire authorities, at around 9:33 a.m. on that day, a rescue dog from the Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province Fire Department, searching under Deokhyeon Bridge in Deokhyeon-ri, found the body of a male buried in the earth.
After the authorities retrieved the body and confirmed its identity, it was identified as A, the teenage son who had gone missing with his 40-year-old mother in the early morning of the 20th at the Mailli camping site. The location where the body was found is about 9 kilometers away in a straight line from the place of disappearance.
Following the recent heavy rain, the number of deaths in the northern Gyeonggi region has risen to six, including five in Gapyeong and one in Pocheon. Two people, a woman in her 40s who went missing from the Mailli camping site and a man in his 50s swept away by rapid currents in Deokhyeon-ri, are still missing. In Gapyeong, the rainfall peaked at 76 mm per hour in the early morning of the 20th.
The Gapyeong-gun government stated that property damage amounting to 34.6 billion won occurred due to the recent heavy rain. This includes 31.2 billion won in public facilities such as road washouts, 430 dwellings, 84 hectares of crops, and 30 million won in private facilities including 11 livestock houses.
A total of 1,442 residents have been affected by dwelling flooding and damage, isolation, and power and water outages, with some areas still without electricity or water supply. The number of evacuees has decreased from 139 to 44. They are receiving living supplies and meals at 12 temporary shelters.