Nepal plane crash: Grieving families wait long for last remains

Kathmandu: After receiving the stunning news of the death of dear ones in Sunday’s plane crash in Nepal, grieving families now face the ordeal of a long wait for their last remains.
The Tribhuban University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, where the autopsies began on the 19 bodies on Sunday, said the process would not be over before Monday night.
The last remains would be handed over only after the entire examination and formalities are over, probably on Tuesday.
Only the families of the six Nepalis killed during the mountain flight clash and the kin of an Indian doctor couple had arrived in Kathmandu.
The majority of the relatives are coming from Trichy town in India’s Tamil Nadu state, which lost eight builders in Sunday’s crash.
The Indian embassy in Kathmandu said the family members had reached New Delhi and were proceeding to Kathmandu.
On Sunday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa asked Trichy’s member of parliament P Kumar to coordinate the bringing back of the bodies of the eight builders from the state killed in the crash. She also sent state Animal Husbandry Minister NR Sivapathy to meet the grieving families.
Nepali airline Buddha Air’s mountain flight to the Everest region Sunday crashed in Kotdanda in the Kathmandu valley, killing all 19 people on board.
26/09/11 Sudeshna Sarkar/Daily News & Analysis

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