"Insufficient Search, Please Keep Looking"... Second Relief Team Dispatch Being Pursued

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Our government's emergency relief team dispatched to the scene of the severe flood in Nepal will head home tomorrow (the 11th). Families of the missing have requested additional searches, stating that the search operations were not thorough enough, and the government is preparing to dispatch a second relief team.

Reporter Kang Min-u.

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The dismantlement of the base camp set up by our government's emergency relief team in Battar, Nepal, has begun.

Having arrived in Nepal on the 2nd, the emergency relief team is set to wrap up its scheduled 10-day mission and depart for home tomorrow via a military transport aircraft.

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

Families of the missing employees from Korea South-Power Co., 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 no unusual findings based merely on 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, raising the possibility that some individuals may have evacuated toward the mountains.

The video in question shows a massive stream of water mixed with mud rushing toward the blue-roofed building of Korea South-Power Co., while three vehicles hastily pull away and someone is seen getting out of a car and running along a path beside the mountain.

The families demanded additional searches in this area, stating that a local Nepali staff member had also mentioned seeing someone escape toward the mountain.

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

The government has decided to pursue the dispatch of a second relief team to continue search operations. 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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