Thousands of Scouts evacuated from World Jamboree site due to storm threat
Tuesday, 8 August 2023 Thousands of Scouts who survived soaring temperatures and dire sanitation at the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea have now been forced to leave as a tropical storm approaches.
South Korean authorities have embarked on a massive operation to relocate nearly 40,000 teenage scouts from around the world, after they were forced to change venues for a 12-day gathering that had become plagued with problems. The World Scout Jamboree, held on a giant makeshift campsite on the...
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Overflowing trash bins, dirty toilets, bug-infested fields. These were some of the conditions that about 40,000 teenage scouts had to contend with in the past week at the World Scout Jamboree, sending..
Organisers of the World Scout Jamboree asked host South Korea Monday to "urgently" evacuate tens of thousands of children from their campsite ahead of a typhoon, just days after a heatwave. The..
Dozens of military doctors and nurses were deployed to the camp site of the World Scout Jamboree in Buan, South Korea, as the teenaged attendees struggled to cope with the extreme temperatures brought..
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
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