"Inadequate Search, Please Keep Looking"... Push for Dispatch of Second Relief Team

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The South Korean emergency relief team dispatched to the site of the massive flood in Nepal will embark on their return journey tomorrow (September 11). Families of the missing have requested additional searches, pointing out that the areas where evacuees are believed to have fled were not thoroughly searched, and the government has decided to push for the dispatch of a second relief team.

Reported by Kang Min-u.

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Dismantling work has begun at the South Korean government's emergency relief team base camp set up in Battar, Nepal.

The emergency relief team, which arrived in Nepal on September 2, will complete its operation period tomorrow and board a military transport aircraft to return home.

[Lee Gyu-ho / Head of the 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. It feels quite heavy to prepare for our return to South Korea with feelings of regret.]

Families of the missing employees from Korea South-East Power, which accounts for three of the nine missing South Koreans, held a press conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, yesterday morning local time.

[Family Member of a Missing Person: After announcing that there were nothing unusual found through aerial views and vehicle patrols without a single practical foot search, they are now declaring the end of the search under the excuse of safety.]

Based on social media videos and other materials, they requested additional searches, stating that there may be people who evacuated toward the mountain.

The video shows a massive stream mixed with mud rushing toward the blue-roofed Korea South-East Power building while three vehicles hurriedly pull out, and a scene where someone gets out of a car and runs along the side of the mountain.

The families stated they were told by a local Nepali staff member that someone was seen escaping toward the mountain, demanding an additional search of this area.

[Family Member of a Missing Person: There is someone who said they went up the mountain, were swept up in the water, and then bounced back out and survived...]

The government has decided to push for the dispatch of a second relief team to continue search operations, and the scale, timing, and specific roles of the dispatch will be finalized and announced by the Public-Private Joint Emergency Relief Council.
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