Pokhara: The bodies of 26 passengers on board the Yeti Airlines aircraft that crashed in Seti gorge on Monday have been identified.
Among the 67 dead bodies taken to Pokhara Institute of Health Sciences, 26 have been identified so far, said District Police Office Kaski spokesperson Gyan Bahadur Khadka.
Khadkda said that the relatives have been requested to come to receive the bodies that have been identified.
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Bodies being handed over today
The bodies of the people who died in the air crash involving a Yeti Airlines aircraft here on Sunday will be handed over to their relatives today.
Assistant Chief District Officer of Kaski Anil Shahi said that the bodies that have been identified will be handed over to the respective families after completing due procedures from 9:00 am today.
Likewise, preparations have been made to send the bodies of the unidentified, foreign nationals and of the people whose relatives in Kathmandu to the federal capital by a helicopter.
Out of the 72 people on board the aircraft, the bodies of 66 have been retrieved and taken to the Pokhara Institute of Health Sciences for examination. Six more bodies are yet to be recovered. However, Assistant CDO Shahi shared that although three bodies were noticed they could not be brought due to the different topography of the crash site.
The rescue work in the Seti gorge was withheld due to geographical constraints last night and has resumed this morning, Shahi said.
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Parbat in grief with 10 casualties
It has been confirmed that Parbat lost 10 of its residents in the Yeti airlines plane crash that took place in Pokhara on Sunday.
All the ten have been identified and include central member of Federation of Nepali Journalists Tribhuvan Paudel, a resident of Kushma municipality-14, Arun Paudel,46, and his 11-year-old daughter Prashti of Kushma-9, Rachna Kafle and her 10-month-old son Rihan Paudel of Kushma-1.
Similarly, Bijay Gurung of Modi Rural Municipality-1, and four members of the Sharma family including mother Jamuna Sharma and her Yubaraj Sharma and grand-children Ayurdi Sharma and Bebi Sharma of Uram in Bihadi-5 Pokhara also have been confirmed dead in the fatal air crash.
Assistant Chief District Officer of Kaski Gurudatta Dhakal shared that the bodies of all those who lost their lives from Parbat have been identified and hence the bodies will be handed over to their relatives today.
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FNJ to mourn the death of its member for 13 days
The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) is to mourn the death of its central member journalist Tribhuvan Paudel for 13 days. Paudel was one of the victims of the Yeti Airlines plane crash that took place in Pokhara on Monday.
Accordingly, the FNJ has decided to close its central, provincial and all branch offices today and not hold any formal program except for the mourning for the next 13 days. Likewise, a condolence book will be kept at the central, provincial and branch offices for 13 days starting today for those wishing to express their tributes to late Paudel.
Paudel began his journalism career with the Pokhara Hotline Daily and worked for Annapurna FM and Nepal Television. Lately, he was the publisher and editor of Pokhara Hotline daily newspaper.
The 37-year-old is survived by his wife and a son.
Issuing a statement, the FNJ has said that the death of Paudel has caused an irreparable loss to the Nepali journalism sector. (RSS)
