South Korea's President Yoon orders water trucks, buses for heatwave-hit scout jamboree

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SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered on Friday (Aug 4) that air-conditioned buses and water trucks be sent to a global scout event his country is hosting, after hundreds of teenage participants fell ill due to hot weather. At least 600 people at the World Scout Jamboree, which kicked off in

SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered on Friday that air-conditioned buses and water trucks be sent to a global scout event his country is hosting, after hundreds of teenage participants fell ill due to hot weather.

One Malaysian scout told a South Korean newspaper that the weather was even hotter than in his home country:"It was so hot that I got a migraine," he said. Participants for the 25th World Scout Jamboree fill water bottles at a water supply zone of a camping site in Buan, South Korea, Aug 2, 2023.

 

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