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Korean and Nepalese Rescue Teams Have Dug 400 Meters Into the Tunnel of the Hydroelectric Power Plant Where 9 Are Missing, but with No news... They Have Launched a Search on Foot.

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A joint South Korean and Nepalese rescue team searched up to 400 meters of a hydroelectric power plant tunnel to find nine South Korean workers missing due to the massive floods in Nepal, but without success. Consequently, the rescue team decided to expand beyond the tunnel search to conduct simultaneous foot and drone searches in the nearby rugged mountainous areas and is continuing the rescue operation.

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The Republic of Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT), which has been conducting search and rescue operations at the site of the massive floods in Nepal, will launch a foot search on the 8th, focusing on mountainous areas requested by the families of missing Koreans. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, six KDRT members will use helicopters alongside the Nepalese military to reach Powerhouse and Yellow Bridge on this day.

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A joint South Korean and Nepalese rescue team searched up to 400 meters of a hydroelectric power plant tunnel to find nine South Korean workers missing due to the massive floods in Nepal, but without success. Consequently, the rescue team decided to expand beyond the tunnel search to conduct simultaneous foot and drone searches in the nearby rugged mountainous areas and is continuing the rescue operation.

On the 8th (local time), the 14th day since the massive floods struck the Himalayan mountainous region on the Nepal-China border, the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT) dispatched to the site launched a foot search focusing on the mountainous areas where the families of the missing Koreans had requested assistance. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, six KDRT members traveled by helicopter to Ramche in the Rasuwa region of Bagmati Provi…

[NEWSIS] On the 6th (local time), members of the South Korean Overseas Emergency Rescue Team (KDRT) and the Nepalese military waited for their return helicopter after completing their search in front of a tunnel near the Upper Trishri 1 hydroelectric power plant in Rasuwa, Nepal.

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chosunonline.com broke the news on Sunday, September 6, 2026.
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