It is thought Paul could now hit China, which has also suffered from severe flooding. Explosives threat Korean soldiers search for landmines washed away by floodwaters Earlier this week, another storm, Typhoon Olga, hit the Korean Peninsula, leaving at least 60 people dead or missing. As Koreans begin to clear up after the floods, they are being warned of the danger posed by landmines and other explosives dislodged by floodwaters from the heavily-fortified border zone between North and South Korea. The South and its ally, the US, are thought to have placed about one million landmines and anti-tank explosives along the border. Landmines designed to defend South Koreans may now harm them Marines say they are looking for 150 mines which may have been dislodged.
Reports say just four have been found so far.
Artillery shells and more than 7,000 other pieces of ammunition have been swept away defence ministry officials say. In the Philippines, relief agencies say floods have killed more than 100 people. Rescue teams digging through a housing estate that collapsed on Tuesday just outside the capital, Manila, say they have all but given up hope of finding any more survivors. On Saturday five more bodies were recovered but no other survivors, apart from a dog, have been pulled from the wreckage. More than half of the 500 houses in the Cherry Hills housing estate were destroyed in the landslide.