Ten bodies from Tara Air crash brought to Teaching Hospital (with photos & video)
The bodies of ten of the deceased were brought on Monday evening.
KATHMANDU: MAY. 31 – The bodies of ten people who lost their lives in the Tara Air plane crash in Mustang on Sunday have been brought to Kathmandu Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj.
The body was brought to Tribhuvan International Airport by a Nepal Army helicopter on Monday evening from Kowang in Mustang via Pokhara. Due to inclement weather, the remaining 11 bodies could not be removed from the site.
The bodies of ten of the deceased were brought on Monday evening, but postmortems will not be performed until all of the bodies have been brought in. Only after the entire legal and medical process has been completed will the relatives be able to take of the body.
Tara Air’s twin-otter aircraft, which took off from Pokhara for Jomsom in Mustang at 9:55 am on Sunday, lost contact shortly after takeoff.
The plane, which had been searched all day on Sunday, was found at Sanosware Cliff of Thasang Rural Municipality-2 in Mustang on Monday morning.
There were 13 Nepali, 4 Indian and 2 German nationals on board. The other three were crew members.
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-Saroj Basnet/Makalu Khabar
