Ground search team leaves to look for missing South Koreans in Nepal
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- A nine-member South Korean government search team left the South Korean Embassy in Kathmandu to look for nine nationals missing after flooding in Nepal.
- The team plans to travel by road for about five hours to Lamche in Rasuwa, near a hydropower plant and a construction site.
- Officials said the team aims to reach the area near its search target on the same day.
A nine-member South Korean government search team left Kathmandu on Monday to look for nine South Koreans missing after flooding in Nepal.
The team gathered at the South Korean Embassy at 7:20 a.m. local time before beginning a roughly five-hour drive to Lamche in the Rasuwa area. It plans to conduct the search by road after reaching the area.
We will go to the Lamche area today to gather search information.
Lamche is near a construction site and a hydropower plant. The team expects to approach the vicinity of its search target later that day.
Cho Hyun-moon, chief of the National Fire Agency’s Central 119 Rescue Headquarters, said the team would travel toward Lamche to collect information. “We will go to the Lamche area today to gather search information,” he said. “We will do our utmost to conduct a swift search and rescue while paying close attention to safety.”
We will do our utmost to conduct a swift search and rescue while paying close attention to safety.
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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