Rescuers pull out the body of a victim killed in a Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara. The search for the lone missing person in the plane crash in Nepal intensified on Friday, Nepalese Army officials said, as autopsies continued on the remaining victims here at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. | Photo credit: AFP
The search for the lone missing person in the plane crash in Nepal intensified on Friday, Nepalese Army officials said, as autopsies continued on the remaining victims here at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital.
A Yeti Airlines plane with 72 people on board, including five Indians, crashed into a river gorge in the resort town of Pokhara on January 15.
The five Indians, all from Uttar Pradesh, have been identified as Abhisekh Kushwaha (25), Bishal Sharma (22), Anil Kumar Rajbhar (27), Sonu Jaiswal (35) and Sanjaya Jaiswal.
Sanjaya Jaiswal’s body was handed over to his relatives who returned to India, hospital sources said.
So far only 71 bodies have been recovered and the search for the remaining person is ongoing.
On Thursday, 12 bodies, including one of an Indian national, were handed over to family members.
The remaining bodies will be returned to their families once the autopsy is complete, hospital sources said.
The Nepal Army said Friday it had stepped up search operations to locate the lone missing person.
Nepalese Army officials conducted search operations from the Seti River in Pokhara to Damauli and Kharenitar in Tanhu district in search of the remains of the crash.
The search will continue, according to a press release from the Nepalese army on Saturday.
According to the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority, 914 people have died in plane crashes since the first disaster was recorded in the country in August 1955.
Yeti Airlines’ tragedy in Pokhara on Sunday is the 104th crash in Nepal’s skies and the third largest in terms of casualties.
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