BUAN, South Korea (Reuters) -The World Scout Jamboree in South Korea faced calls to be cancelled on Saturday after large contingents from the United States and Britain pulled out a week early over extreme heat and weather conditions. Saturday's pullout by the U.S., as well as Singapore, is a fresh blow to the organisers and the South Korean government, which on Friday promised more water trucks, air-conditioned spaces and medics in an attempt to save the event. Temperatures have hit 34 Celsius (
South Korea decided on Saturday to press on with hosting the World Scout Jamboree, despite warnings about the dangers posed by the extreme heat the country is enduring, and the US and British contingents pulling out a week early.
An apparently random stabbing attack in a commuter town near Seoul, the second such rampage in South Korea in less than two weeks, has sparked fear in a country that has long been considered safe with a low murder rate and strict firearm curbs. A man rammed his car into passers-by then got out and stabbed multiple people in a shopping mall in Seongnam on Thursday, police said. The unexplained rampage came days after another rare stabbing attack in Seoul which killed one person and wounded three others.
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South Korea raised the hot
weather warning to its highest, the first time in four years, as
parts of the country roasted in temperatures over 38 degrees
Celsius , the interior and safety ministry said.