Korean Rescue Team Begins Foot Search in Nepal’s Mountains for Nine Missing Nationals

South Korea's overseas emergency relief team has begun searching Nepal's mountain terrain on foot for nine Koreans who disappeared during last month's major flood caused by a glacier collapse.

Seven members of the Korean Disaster Relief Team traveled by helicopter with the Nepalese Army on the 8th to mountainous areas near the powerhouse of the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower plant. They searched near the left side of Yellow Bridge and the right side of the main camp, locations where the missing Koreans may have taken shelter and where their families had requested a search.

The team also used two drones to look for traces of the missing people. Nepal had previously been reluctant to allow a foot search because of the steep terrain and landslide risk, but agreed to cooperate one day earlier.

The search continued near a tunnel close to the upper weir dam of the Upper Trishuli-1 facility, where one Chinese national was rescued on the 5th. Rescue workers entered 400 meters into the tunnel but found no additional survivors.