9 South Koreans Still Unreachable; 9 Isolated Workers Airlifted

[Anchor]

Let us check in on the latest regarding our missing citizens by connecting to the field. Our reporter is stationed outside Doosan Enerbility, where an emergency response headquarters has been set up.

Reporter Park Jaehyeon, is there any news yet regarding contact being made?

[Reporter]

The South Korean workers with whom contact has not yet been established are 6 employees of Doosan Enerbility and 3 employees of Korea South-East Power Co. (KOEN).

Doosan has set up an emergency response headquarters here at Doosan Tower and is urgently responding while maintaining continuous contact with the local site.

There are a total of 21 Doosan Enerbility South Korean employees at the Nepal hydroelectric power plant construction site. Out of 16 who were at the site at the time, 6 have lost contact.

Ten workers were isolated, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated a short while ago that 9 of them were safely evacuated using a Nepalese military helicopter.

The remaining 1 person at the site is the site manager, and it is reported that they will soon be airlifted along with 2 employees from the Embassy of South Korea in Nepal.

It is understood that of the 16 Doosan Enerbility employees at the scene, 10 initially left the office facility to inspect the power plant facilities across the river, when a flood suddenly struck.

Because the power plant facilities were located further from the river and on higher ground, the 10 workers there became isolated, while the 6 people at the office facility lost contact.

Among the 7 employees dispatched to Nepal by Korea South-East Power Co., 3 who were at the on-site office facility are also out of contact.

The remaining 4 are reportedly working in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.

[Anchor]

The families must be suffering more than anyone. Have any of them come to the location?

[Reporter]

Families of the Doosan Enerbility employees who have lost contact are reportedly gathered at the company, discussing whether to travel to the site.

Doosan stated that if the families wish to travel to the site, they will actively support them.

It has been confirmed that the families of the 3 Korea South-East Power Co. employees with whom contact has not been made are currently residing in Nepal.

Korea South-East Power Co. stated that they are in continuous communication with the families and will actively provide necessary support.

[Anchor]

Did the companies first dispatch response teams to the site?

[Reporter]

Doosan Enerbility urgently dispatched 8 people, including its CEO, to the site in Nepal.

Korea South-East Power Co. also formed a 7-person response team and departed for Nepal.

However, as a significant number of roads leading to the accident site have been washed away making vehicle access difficult, they plan to mobilize helicopters to reach the accident site.

The government has also urgently dispatched a joint government rapid response team consisting of 11 personnel from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Korean National Police Agency, and the National Fire Agency.

(Camera filming: Bae Munsan | Video editing: Kim Jinwon | Design: Kang Yoonjung)
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