Yoon Suk Yeol tells officials to provide cold water trucks and improved food, after hundreds fall ill with heat-related illnesses amid soaring temperatures

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South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol has ordered that “unlimited” air-conditioned buses and cold-water trucks be sent to a global Scouts event his country is hosting, after hundreds of teenage participants fell ill due to a heatwave.

At least 600 people at the World Scout Jamboree, which kicked off in southwestern Buan on Tuesday, have so far been treated for heat-related ailments, officials said.