All participants at this year’s World Scout Jamboree in South Korea will be evacuated from the event’s campsite before the scheduled end date of 12 August due to a typhoon that is expected to make landfall over the Korean peninsula in the coming days.
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The event, which attracted 43,000 scouts from 158 countries, has been plagued by issues since it started on Tuesday, including a heatwave that resulted in hundreds of participants being treated for heat-related ailments, and reports of poor sanitation, waterlogged conditions caused by heavy rain, as well as rotten food and swarms of mosquitoes and flies.
Matt Hyde, the chief executive of the UK Scouts, says safety concerns had cut short the experience, and had led to the 4,500-member UK contingent being moved from the campsite.
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