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Nepal floods: 11 SMART officers and members depart for Nepal

From Utusan Malaysia · () Malay

Translated from Malay and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Malaysia’s SMART team will begin a 10-day rescue operation in Nepal after receiving approval from the Nepalese government.
  • The team will prioritize the last location where Malaysian nationals were detected.

Eleven officers and members of Malaysia’s Special Malaysia Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team, known as SMART, are departing for Nepal to support a 10-day operation following floods there.

The team will focus first on the last area where Malaysian nationals were detected, according to National Disaster Management Agency Director-General Datuk Meor Ismail Meor Akim.

The operation began after the Nepalese government approved the deployment.

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Originally published by Utusan Malaysia in Malay. 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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