Police raid Andong City Hall after flood sweeps away wildfire housing

Police said Thursday it raided Andong City Hall as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in the procurement of temporary housing for the region’s wildfire victims.

North Gyeongsang Provincial Police Agency’s anti-corruption investigators searched the city’s construction department, seizing computers and related documents to examine the allegations.

The investigation comes after several temporary homes provided to Andong wildfire victims were swept away by flood during heavy rain last ...