According to the Nepali Embassy in South Korea, he had arrived in Korea on a student visa.
Nepali students who were caught in a fire at a factory producing household goods in South Korea have lost contact.
A fire broke out at a wet wipes and diaper manufacturing factory in Umsang, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea, last Friday. Siddharth Karki of Dolakha, who worked at the same factory, has been missing since Friday. It has been revealed that Karki only works part-time at the diaper manufacturing factory. He has gone to Korea to study.
He went missing after the fire, said Sandeep Raut, who was living with him.
According to the Nepali Embassy in South Korea, Karki had gone to Korea on a student visa. Along with 20-year-old Karki, a 50-year-old citizen of Kazakhstan is also missing from the factory. The body of one person has been recovered from the same factory in a burnt condition that could not be identified. The embassy said that the body has been taken to a local hospital for DNA testing.
According to Korean media, it took firefighters 21 hours to completely control the fire. There were 83 people working inside the factory at the time of the incident. Of these, 81 managed to escape safely. One person's body was found on the second-floor staircase of the building at 12:39 am.
According to initial assessments, three out of five buildings in the complex, spread over an area of about 24,000 square meters, have been completely destroyed by the fire. The flames spread to a nearby forested hill about 500 meters away, burning about 1,000 square meters of forest.
