"Insufficient Search, Please Keep Looking"... Missing Person Family Members Reveal Video

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Some of the families of South Koreans missing in the devastating floods in Nepal have held a local press conference. The families of the missing stated that sufficient searches were not conducted in the areas where the evacuees are believed to have taken refuge, and they requested additional search operations.

Correspondent Han Sang-woo reports.

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Families of the missing employees from Korea South-East Power Co. (KOEN), which accounts for three of the nine missing South Koreans, held a press conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, on the morning of today, the 9th, local time.

[Family of Missing Person: After announcing that there were no unusual findings through aerial surveys and vehicle inspections without conducting a single practical foot search, they are now declaring the end of the search under the pretext of safety.]

They provided social media video footage from the time of the disaster and argued that the areas where the missing persons are presumed to have evacuated were not properly searched.

In the video, a massive torrent of water mixed with mud and debris rushes toward the blue-roofed KOEN building, while one bus and two SUVs hurriedly drive away, and someone is seen getting out of a vehicle and running toward a path beside the mountain.

After the camera pans down to the lower reaches of the river and pans back, the spot where the vehicles and people attempted to evacuate is shown completely covered with water and mud.

They also stated that a local Nepali employee claimed to have seen people escaping toward the mountain, demanding additional searches in this area.

[Family of Missing Person: There are people who say they climbed up the mountain, got swept into the water, but were bounced back out and survived... As recently as three days ago, someone came forward saying they escaped from there in Nepal.]

[Family of Missing Person: If those people are somewhere in the place we mentioned, and they are found there a month, two months, or three months later, how are you going to take responsibility for this?]

Apart from the government rescue team, KOEN has deployed 30 local Sherpas in addition to its existing 46 personnel across four teams to conduct ground searches, while Doosan is also continuing its search efforts using helicopters and drones.

(Video Editing: Choi Jin-hwa)
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