First Batch of Disaster Relief Team to Return Home as Scheduled the Day After Tomorrow... "Pushing for Second Batch"

[Anchor]

As families of the missing desperately plead for additional search operations at the site of the severe floods in Nepal, the active deployment period for our emergency relief team on the ground is coming to an end. Let's connect with our correspondent in Nepal to find out more about the situation.

Correspondent Choi Go-un, the families of the missing have requested additional searches, but is the emergency relief team withdrawing as scheduled?

[Reporter]

Our government's emergency relief team, which arrived in Nepal on the 2nd, set its activity period at 10 days, which runs until the 11th, the day after tomorrow.

For now, the team that came this time has decided to return home aboard a military transport plane on the 11th in accordance with that schedule.

Here in Battar, where the relief team's base camp was located, the dismantling of the base camp began this afternoon (the 9th).

While returning to Battar after meeting with families of the missing in Kathmandu, I was able to see vehicles carrying our relief team members and equipment heading toward Kathmandu.

Considering the dangerous terrain and other conditions in the flood-affected areas of Nepal, the relief team has concluded that they have done everything they possibly could through their operations up until yesterday.

[Lee Gyu-ho / Head of Korea Disaster Relief Team: "Despite various constraints, we did our absolute best to find the missing persons through tunnel searches, foot searches, and drone searches. My heart is quite heavy as we prepare to return home with a sense of lingering regret."]

[Anchor]

Then does this mean there will no longer be any search activities by our side in Nepal?

[Reporter]

Rather than ending with the first dispatch, the government is pushing to dispatch a second batch of the relief team to continue search operations.

However, the scale, timing, and specific roles of the dispatch will be finalized and announced by the Public-Private Joint Emergency Relief Council in accordance with relevant laws.

The government's joint rapid response team and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Nepal stated that they will continue to work closely with Nepalese authorities to carry out necessary tasks, such as supporting the families of South Korean nationals who remain out of contact.

(Camera & Video Reporting: Cho Chang-hyun, Yang Ji-hoon | Video Editing: Lee Seung-yul | Design: Kim Yeji)
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