Nepal Plane Crash: no survivors found, collection of bodies of dead begins

Updated : May 30, 2022 11:41
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No survivors have been found from the Tara Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board, PTI reported.

The dead include four Indians, according to Nepalese media reports on Monday.

The turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET plane belonging to Tara Air went missing on Sunday morning in a mountainous region and had four Indian nationals, two Germans and 13 Nepali passengers, besides a three-member Nepali crew.

WATCH | Rescuers locate crashed Tara Air plane, 4 Indians were onboard

Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority said 14 bodies have been found.

The Canadian-built plane was flying from the city of Pokhara to Jomsom, a popular tourist town in central Nepal.

The wreckage of a plane was found in the country's Mustang district on Monday.

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