South Korea to send team of 44 specialists to Nepal after floods
According to The Korea Herald, South Korea plans to send a team of 44 specialists to Nepal on Tuesday for search-and-rescue and other work following massive floods and landslides. The team will fly on a South Korean military transport aircraft and work in Nepal for about 10 days.
Team composition and search efforts
The Korean Disaster Relief Team includes staff from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Korea International Cooperation Agency, fire services and other agencies. The group will conduct search-and-rescue operations, including efforts to find nine South Korean citizens who are still considered missing.
Six of them are employees of Doosan Enerbility, while the other three work for Korea South-East Power Co. They were working at a hydropower plant construction site in the Rasuwa district when the disaster struck.
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Assistance to Nepal
South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it is sending the team at the request of the Nepalese government for assistance in search-and-rescue operations in areas of Rasuwa affected by worsening floods. Last week, Seoul already dispatched a separate rapid response team that is conducting ground and aerial searches for the nine missing South Koreans.
The floods and landslides occurred last Wednesday in Nepal's north-central Himalayan region near the border with Tibet. According to foreign media reports, more than 800 people were killed and about 3,000 are considered missing. South Korea previously announced $1 million in humanitarian aid for Nepal through international organizations.
