KDRT Finds No Signs of Missing South Koreans in Nepal Foot Search
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- South Korea’s overseas emergency relief team and Nepalese soldiers searched two mountainous areas for nine missing South Koreans after a major flood.
- The team found no notable signs, while mobile-phone location tracking produced little progress.
- Nepalese authorities allowed the foot search after previously citing the steep terrain as a safety concern.
South Korea’s overseas emergency relief team searched on foot for missing South Koreans in Nepal’s mountains, but the operation produced no notable findings. The team also tried to use mobile-phone location tracking, with little progress reported.
On the eighth, seven members of the Korea Disaster Relief Team, including its leader Lee Gyu-ho, traveled by two helicopters with the Nepalese army to areas selected by the families of the missing. They searched as far as possible on foot in the mountain areas to the left of the Powerhouse and Yellow Bridge and to the right of the main camp.
Nepalese authorities had previously barred a foot search because of the steep terrain, but later agreed to cooperate with the Korean team. South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun had asked Nepal’s Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal for special support in searching for the nine missing South Koreans.
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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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