Rescuers search for missing as typhoon kills 87

SOUTH KOREAN soldiers and rescue workers searched for dozens of missing people late yesterday after the country’s most powerful typhoon on record killed at least 87 and inflicted damage worth nearly €600 million.

Typhoon Maemi, or “cicada” in Korean, tore into southern parts of the peninsula Friday night, packing record winds of up to 134 mph and carving a swathe of destruction before heading out to sea Saturday.

“I’ve lived here for more than 50 years and we never imagined anything like this,” said Kim Sung-tae, a city official in Masan, near the port of Pusan.