 Thousands of British scouts at the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea are to be moved off camp as a heatwave leaves hundreds of youngsters ill. The group will be transported to hotels in the capital, Seoul where they will remain until the group's planned flight home on August 13. It comes as temperatures topped 35 degrees at Saemangeum, the area of reclaimed land in Buan where around 39,000 mostly teenage scouts and accompanying adults from 155 countries are camping. At least 600 people have suffered heat-related ailments since the event kicked off on Tuesday, although most were mild said authorities. A Reuters agency reporter said they had seen several scouts being stretchered off to a treatment centre. South Korea's Prime Minister Han Duck-soo told a special cabinet meeting to approve spending 6 billion won (£4.1 million) to support the jamboree. He said: 'The government will use all its resources to ensure that the jamboree can end safely amid the heatwave.' To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A scout is carried on a stretcher and taken to the jamboree's treatment centre (Picture: Reuters) A boy waits at the treatment centre (Picture: Reuters) The camping site at the jamboree (Picture: Reuters) The extra money will cover more water trucks, air conditioned spaces including buses and medics, said officials. A statement on the UK Scouts website said its group will be moved into hotels 'over the next two days' to 'alleviate the pressure on the site overall'. It continued: 'While we have been on site at the Jamboree, the UK volunteer team has worked extremely hard with the organisers, for our youth members and adult volunteers to have enough food and water to sustain them, shelter from the unusually hot weather, and toilets and washing facilities appropriate for a){kind=link}
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Thousands of British scouts at the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea are to be moved off camp as a heatwave leaves hundreds of youngsters ill.
The group will be transported to hotels in the capital, Seoul where they will remain until the group’s planned flight home on August 13.
It comes as temperatures topped 35 degrees at Saemangeum, the area of reclaimed land in Buan where around 39,000 mostly teenage scouts and accompanying adults from 155 countries are camping.
At least 600 people have suffered heat-related ailments since the event kicked off on Tuesday, although most were mild said authorities.