Desk Report
Publish: 31 May 2022, 11:16 am
Nepalese policemen shift the dead body of a plane crash victim to an ambulance at an airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, May 30, 2022. Rescuers searching a mountainside in Nepal on Monday recovered the bodies of 21 of the 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed a day earlier, officials said || Photo: AP
With the last dead body found on
Tuesday morning, all the 22 bodies left by a crashed Nepali passenger plane
have been recovered, the Nepal Army said.
"Last dead body has been
recovered. Arranging to bring remaining 12 dead bodies from the crash site to
Kathmandu," tweeted Brigadier General Narayan Silwal, spokesman of the
Nepal Army, which was leading the search and rescue effort.
A preliminary study shows bad
weather conditions caused the Twin Otter plane to crash in a remote hilly area
in Nepal's Mustang district, but the details will be probed by a five-member
investigation team, Deo Chandra Lal Karn, spokesman of the Civil Aviation Authority
of Nepal, told Xinhua.
The Tara Airplane went missing
on Sunday morning minutes after it took off from the Nepali city of Pokhara on
a journey to Jomsom in Mustang district. Nineteen passengers, including 13
Nepalis, four Indians, and two Germans, were aboard the flight along with three
crew members.
The Nepal Army found the crash
site on Monday morning with 21 bodies recovered and 10 airlifted to Kathmandu
on the day.
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