Flash flood in Nepal leaves 9 Koreans missing, 10 others confirmed safe

Nine South Korean workers were missing and 10 others were evacuated after sudden flooding struck Nepal’s Rasuwa region on Wednesday morning, according to Seoul’s Foreign Ministry. The nine missing workers are employees of the Korea South-East Power Co. and Doosan Enerbility who had been working at a hydroelectric power plant construction site in the area. The ministry had initially said eight Koreans were unaccounted for, but the Korean Embassy in Kathmandu later confirmed with Doosan Enerbility