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Prachanda reaches Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital to meet the families.(ANI photo)
Expressing his condolences to the families, the Prime Minister directed the hospital authorities to expedite the identification of bodies, make the process scientific and hand over the bodies to the next of kin at the earliest.
Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Thursday met the bereaved families of those killed in the Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara city.
Prachanda reached Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital to meet the families.
Expressing his condolences to the families, the Prime Minister directed the hospital authorities to expedite the identification of the bodies, make the process scientific and hand over the bodies to the next of kin at the earliest.
According to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, Prime Minister Dahal requested the hospital authorities to seek necessary assistance from the government to establish the identity of the deceased at the earliest.
The Prime Minister also inspected the dead bodies kept for identification.
In one of Nepal’s worst domestic accidents, a Yeti Airlines plane after taking off from Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport on November 15 crashed on the banks of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport in Pokhara minutes before landing. Done.
The Yeti Airlines plane had 53 Nepalese passengers and 15 foreign nationals including five Indians and four crew members when it crashed.
The five Indians, all from Uttar Pradesh, have been identified as Abhishek Kushwaha (25), Vishal Sharma (22), Anil Kumar Rajbhar (27), Sonu Jaiswal (35) and Sanjay Jaiswal.
So far only 71 bodies have been recovered and search is on for the remaining one.
According to Nepal’s civil aviation body, 914 people have died in air accidents in the country since the first disaster was recorded in August 1955.
The Yeti Airlines tragedy in Pokhara on Sunday is the 104th accident in Nepali skies and the third biggest in terms of casualties.
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