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Nepal teams focus search near offices and housing after body ruled out as South Korean

From Hankyoreh · () Korean

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

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  • South Korea’s overseas emergency rescue team planned to concentrate on the area below Nepal’s Yellow Bridge while searching for nine missing South Koreans.
  • A body found near the Upper Trishuli-1 plant on Sept. 1 was identified as not South Korean, while another body found earlier remained unidentified.
  • South Korea approved 130 million won in emergency relief supplies for Nepal’s flood victims.

South Korean rescue teams in Nepal are shifting attention to the area beneath the Yellow Bridge, a crossing that links the main camp and accommodation at the Trishuli River hydropower site.

The government-deployed Korea Disaster Relief Team planned to focus on the bridge’s lower section on Sept. 4 while searching for nine South Koreans who lost contact after severe flooding. The bridge connects the main camp on the river’s right bank with the power-house accommodation on the left.

A South Korean Foreign Ministry official said the team had already searched around Ramche, near the main camp, and Dhunche, near a weir dam where one South Korean worked. Investigators have identified two likely evacuation routes for the missing workers: the mountains behind the main camp and the Yellow Bridge. The official said the bridge had not yet been examined in detail and that families also wanted searchers to concentrate there.

The rescue team planned to discuss renewed helicopter flights and joint operations with Nepalese authorities. Two ground searchers remaining in Dhunche were also expected to continue searching as they descended from the area. The previous day, Nepal provided two military helicopters, but bad weather forced them to turn back.

Police confirmed that a body found near the Upper Trishuli-1 plant on Sept. 1 was not South Korean. The South Korean Embassy in Nepal continued working to identify another body found inside the plant tunnel on Aug. 31. The Foreign Ministry said identification was taking longer because many bodies had been recovered and DNA analysis between Nepal and South Korea differed considerably.

South Korea also approved 130 million won in emergency relief supplies for flood victims in Nepal. The shipment, including 36,000 light thermal blankets and 2,320 heavy thermal blankets, was expected to arrive by civilian aircraft around Sept. 5.

We will focus on the lower part of the Yellow Bridge above the Trishuli River.

· South Korean Foreign Ministry officialThe official described the next focus of the search for nine missing South Koreans.
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Originally published by Hankyoreh 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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