Korea's First Emergency Relief Team to Return from Nepal on September 11... Government Preparing to Dispatch Second Team

Schedule and Size of Second Team to Be Decided by Emergency Relief Council

As the first team of the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT), which was dispatched to Nepal to search for those missing after the massive floods, is set to return to Korea on September 11, the government is preparing to send a second team to continue the search operations.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 9, the first KDRT team is preparing for their return based on a resolution by the Public-Private Overseas Emergency Relief Council. They are scheduled to return to Korea on September 11 using the military transport aircraft KC-330. The original deployment of the first team was set for ten days.

A truck carrying equipment and supplies of the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT) moved into downtown Kathmandu on the 9th (local time). Photo by Yonhap News Agency

Blankets, clothing, tents, and other relief supplies donated by civic groups through local companies in Korea will also be delivered to Nepal aboard the KC-330 headed for the country to facilitate the return of the first team.

The first team set up a base camp in Batar, Bagmati Province in northern-central Nepal, where the flooding occurred, and has been conducting search operations at various locations, including the Upper Trishuli (UT)-1 hydropower plant construction site, where nine missing Korean nationals had worked.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also announced that it is pursuing the dispatch of a second KDRT team to continue the search for the missing individuals. The schedule and size of the dispatch will be confirmed and announced after a decision by the Public-Private Emergency Relief Council.

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