Four dead in Korean storm chaos

Although Typhoon Rammasun has been downgraded to a tropical storm, authorities remain on alert for a second typhoon

SEOUL, South Korea -- Typhoon Rammasun has claimed two more lives in South Korea, bringing to four the death toll from the severe weather and flooding on the peninsula.

Although Rammasun has been downgraded to a tropical storm, two men were swept away by rising waters in the southwestern city of Naju, government officials said Sunday.

Officials remain on alert as a second Typhoon, Chataan, gathers force near Guam with forecasters saying the storm will move rapidly in a northwesterly direction.

Chataan wreaked havoc on the Pacific island Friday, claiming some 37 lives and injured more than 100.

U.S. President George W. Bush has declared the island a major disaster area making the territory eligible for federal funds.

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Officials in South Korea say they are putting rescue workers on standby for a possible second hit.

"We expect the next typhoon to arrive in the peninsular around mid next week and have strengthened safety supervision and measures," an official at the National Disaster Prevention Headquarters in Seoul told Reuters.

In the worst hit areas along the southern and southwestern Korean coasts large section of roads were swept away by floods of buried under landslides, the disater headquarters said in a statement.

Authorities say the body of a young boy was found Saturday after he was carried away by floodwaters into a storm drain in southern Sanchong county.

On Friday a man was killed on the island of Jeju when he was swept out to sea by high waves.

Flights resumed to normal operations Sunday, after disruptions to domestic and international routes over the last few days.

Government officials have put the damage to property at 10.5 billion won ($8.75 million) as 1,260 hectares of rice paddies were submerged and roads and bridges washed away.

Rammasun felt in Philippines

The effects of Typhoon Rammasun were felt in the Philippines where at least seven people were killed when monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides across a wide area of the main island of Luzon, including Manila.

More than 3,000 people fled their homes while tens of thousands of commuters in Manila were stranded by the floods which the weather bureau predicted would continue to lash the metropolis of 11 million people for the next three days.

The weather bureau said the heavy rains were intensified by the effects of Typhoon Rammasun.