Second Minister for Foreign Affairs and Second Minister for Home Affairs Sim Ann was at Changi Airport on Sep 1 to send off the advance team.
Singapore had announced last week that it would send officers specialising in disaster victim identification, in line with Nepal’s request.
Nepali rescuers are still searching for survivors a week after the disaster, including by digging through packed sludge that has entombed multiple tunnels of hydropower plants.
So far, rescuers have recovered only bodies from tunnels, but teams were still digging, drilling and blasting through debris.
More than 1,100 bodies have been recovered, and nearly 4,500 people are missing.