KB News Desk
South Korea’s six-member ground search team is staying near the flood-hit Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower plant construction site in Nepal, where nine Korean workers went missing Aug. 26.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the team was at Dhunche, about 2 kilometers from the hydropower plant’s weir, where one of the nine workers is believed to have been when the flash flood struck.
Using drones, the team surveyed the area around the weir with assistance from Nepali authorities. A helicopter was used to search the powerhouse and a camp about 10 kilometers downstream, where the other missing workers had been staying.
The ground search team originally consisted of nine members, but three returned to Kathmandu to closely analyze the drone and helicopter footage for any signs of the missing workers. The remaining six will stay in the area and continue search operations.
It is part of an earlier South Korean government response effort. A newly dispatched 44-member team arrived in Nepal early Wednesday aboard a military aircraft, bringing five search dogs and specialized equipment to join the ongoing search and rescue operations.
