South Korea's Lee urges authorities to step up support as heatwave kills 16

South Korea's president, Lee Jae-myung, is pressing authorities to boost support as a heatwave has killed sixteen people nationwide. Channel NewsAsia reports the inland city of Yangsan hit forty-two point five degrees Celsius on Sunday, the hottest reading in a hundred twenty-two years of record-keeping there.

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