Search continues in Nepal for nine missing South Korean citizens
In Nepal’s mountainous Rasuwa district, a corporate response group is continuing the search for nine South Korean citizens who went missing after floods and landslides on August 26 near Nepal’s border with Tibet. This was reported by The Korea Herald.
46 people involved in the operation
Korea South-East Power dispatched four search teams, totaling 46 people, to the construction area. They are conducting ground searches in the mountainous terrain around the site where the missing people had been working.
The number of search personnel was nearly doubled compared with two days earlier, when two teams of 25 people were working at the site. The company said it was concentrating its search in mountainous areas, assuming that the people may have fled to higher ground during the disaster.
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Drones equipped with thermal imaging and infrared cameras, as well as search dogs, are also being used in the operation.
Search near the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower plant
Separately, Doosan Enerbility deployed a helicopter and two drones to survey the main camp at the construction site of the Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower plant in Rasuwa district. The missing include six Doosan Enerbility employees and three Korea South-East Power staff members.
The government’s Korean Disaster Relief Team, which was sent to support search-and-rescue efforts, also conducted searches near the site where the nine people disappeared. During a visit to Nepal, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun met with his Nepalese counterpart, Shisir Khanal, and requested special attention and support for the search operation. He also expressed condolences over the significant damage caused by the floods and concern over the disappearance of the South Koreans.
