Government: Korea Disaster Relief Team in Nepal Preparing to Return, Second Team Under Preparation

The government announced on the 9th (local time) that the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT), dispatched to the site on the 2nd for search operations regarding the missing persons from the heavy floods in Nepal, is preparing to return home, while preparations are also underway to send a second team.

An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated this on-site in Nepal, explaining that the KDRT is preparing for its return in accordance with a resolution by the public-private joint Overseas Emergency Relief Council.

Details regarding the timing of the dispatch and whether the primary focus of the second team will shift from search operations to reconstruction have not yet been disclosed.

The KDRT, which arrived locally on the 2nd, established a base camp in Vatar, Bagmati Province, in the north-central region affected by the severe floods, and conducted search operations around the Upper Trishuli (UT)-1 hydroelectric power plant construction site where nine missing South Korean nationals worked.

(Photo provided by the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT), Yonhap News)
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