Hopes for More Miracles as Search Intensifies for Tunnel Survivors

[Anchor]

Miraculous survivor rescue stories came out of Nepal last week following a massive flood disaster. Search operations are continuing locally today, September 7, in hopes of yet another miracle. Let's cross over to Nepal.

Reporter Kwon Min-kyu, are there any further rescue updates yet?

[Reporter]

Yes, I am currently standing in front of the base camp of our government's emergency relief team.

Unfortunately, no news of additional survivors has been reported yet.

The Korea Disaster Relief Team deployed helicopters three times just this morning local time, sending 10 personnel and high-resolution drones to concentrate searches inside the tunnel of the dam in the Dunche area, which was under construction by a Korean company.

Following the successive discovery of survivors on September 4 and 5 inside the tunnel of the dam under construction in the flood-affected area, our relief team is also concentrating its personnel and equipment on the tunnel where the possibility of finding survivors is high.

[Anchor]

I understand you also reported on how local evacuees are getting by today, Reporter Kwon?

[Reporter]

It has been 13 days since the massive flood occurred, and Nepali evacuees in Batar are still struggling day by day in temporary shelters.

When we went to report at the shelter this morning, the President of Nepal personally visited to comfort the families of about 160 missing persons.

There were also many local Nepali staff at the hydroelectric power plant construction site being built by a Korean company.

We also met the family of a Nepali woman who went missing while working as a cleaning staff member.

[Tilok Tamang / Husband of a missing person at the main camp: I express my respect to the Korean relief team for doing their utmost in the search regardless of nationality. I hope my wife safely returns alive as well.]

The Nepali government designated today, the 13th day of the disaster, as an official day of mourning, flying flags at half-staff at government offices to honor the victims.

The official death toll tallied so far across Nepal and China has exceeded 1,300, with missing persons reaching around 5,000.

Some families of the missing held protest rallies in front of the government complex in the capital city of Kathmandu, claiming that the rescue operations are too slow.

(Video by Sul Chi-hwan and Kang Si-woo | Video Editing by Kim Byung-jik | Design by Park Cheon-woong)
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