Ground search team closes in on Nepal dam site

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 sear