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The government could consider banning travel to Myanmar and arrange additional temporary flights to help South Koreans leave the country if the political unrest there worsens, a foreign ministry official said Monday, Koreabizwire reported.

The government has helped organize one or two temporary flights a week from the Southeast Asian nation since the Feb. 1 military coup that plunged the nation into turmoil.

So far, a total of 411 out of some 3,500 South Koreans living there have returned home on those flights, according to the official.

Another 274 people will be flying home this week, the official said.