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Nepal plane crash: Families still waiting for bodies, PM Dahal asks hospital staff to hurry up

The Yeti Airlines plane was carrying 53 Nepalese passengers, 15 foreign passengers, including five Indian passengers, and four staff members when it crashed.

Since the first tragedy was registered in August 1955, there have been 914 fatalities in plane crashes in Nepal. The Yeti Airlines tragedy, which occurred in Pokhara on January 15, is the 104th aviation accident to occur in Nepal and ranks third in terms of fatalities.

In order to determine the identity of the deceased as soon as possible, Prime Minister Dahal instructed hospital personnel to make the requisite government aid requests. The bodies that were preserved for identification were also examined by the prime minister, according to the prime minister’s secretariat.

The Yeti Airlines plane was carrying 53 Nepalese passengers, 15 foreign passengers, including five Indian passengers, and four staff members when it crashed. The five Indians have been named as Abhisekh Kushwaha, Bishal Sharma, Anil Kumar Rajbhar, Sonu Jaiswal and Sanjaya Jaiswal. All of them belonged to Uttar Pradesh while four of them were from Ghazipur.

Family members' wait to receive the lifeless remains of the four victims from Ghazipur has grown longer since they have yet to recognise the bodies among the 25 that have been presented to them. On January 20 or 21, the family members will be shown more bodies so that they may identify their relatives. However, in case the bodies are not in a position to be identified, DNA testing will be required, which will take even longer.

The Yeti Airlines plane crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport in Pokhara on November 15 just minutes before landing, in one of Nepal's worst domestic crashes. The plane had just taken off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport.

It was feared that the disaster had taken the lives of everyone on board. There have been 71 dead bodies found thus far, and one more is still missing.

(With agency inputs)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sounak Mukhopadhyay

Sounak Mukhopadhyay, who also goes by the name Sounak Mukherjee, has been producing digital news since 2012. He's worked for the International Business Times, The Inquisitr, and Moneycontrol in the past. He's also contributed to Free Press Journal and TheRichest with feature articles. He covers news for a wide range of subjects including business, finance, economy, politics and social media. Before working with digital news publications, he worked as a freelance content writer.
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