Last Update: January 21, 2023, 10:23 AM IST
The government has set up a five-member inquiry committee to investigate the crash – Nepal’s deadliest aviation accident in more than 30 years (AP Photo/Krishna Mani Baral)
A Yeti Airlines plane carrying 72 people, including five Indians, plunged into a river gorge in the resort town of Pokhara on January 15.
The search for the lone missing person in the Nepal plane crash intensified on Friday, Nepal Army officials said, as postmortems of the remaining victims continued at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital here.
A Yeti Airlines plane carrying 72 people, including five Indians, plunged into a river gorge in the resort town of Pokhara on January 15.
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.
Hospital sources said Sanjay Jaiswal’s body was handed over to his relatives, who returned to India.
So far only 71 bodies have been recovered and search is on for the rest.
On Thursday, 12 bodies, including that of an Indian citizen, were handed over to the relatives.
Hospital sources said the rest of the bodies would be handed over to their families after the post-mortem is over.
The Nepal Army said on Friday that it has intensified search operations to trace the missing man.
Nepal Army officials conducted a search operation from Seti river in Pokhara to Damauli and Kharenitar in Tanhu district in search of the remains of the crash.
According to a press release issued by the Nepal Army, the search will continue on Saturday as well.
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 Nepalese skies and the third biggest in terms of casualties.
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