Foreign Ministry: Additional Bodies of Missing Nepal Avalanche Teachers Found... All Recovered

Search site for missing persons in the Annapurna avalanche last January (Kathmandu EPA=Yonhap News)

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Ji-hee] Two additional bodies, a missing Korean teacher and a Nepali, were found following the avalanche that occurred in Annapurna, Nepal, last January. With this, the bodies of all four Korean teachers and two Nepali guides who went missing in the avalanche have been recovered.

According to diplomatic authorities, at around 11:45 a.m. on the 1st, the Nepali military police and local search teams discovered two bodies while searching the accident site. The search team confirmed through a passport found on one of the bodies that one of the two was a missing female teacher.

Earlier, on January 17, four teachers from the Chungnam Office of Education were swept away by an avalanche along with three Nepali guides (including one from another group) while descending from the Deurali Lodge in the Himalayas' Annapurna region. The body of the Nepali guide from the other group was found in February, and the body of the Nepali who accompanied the Koreans was found on the 22nd.

Among the remaining missing, the bodies of two individuals, one male and one female, were found on the 25th, and the body of a male teacher was found on the 27th. All remaining missing bodies have now been confirmed.

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