All 22 bodies retrieved from Nepal plane crash

Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all 22 people from a plane that crashed in the Himalayas, authorities said Tuesday as they began identifying the victims.

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A Nepal's army helicopter carrying bodies of victims of an air crash of a Twin Otter aircraft operated by Tara Air that crashed earlier in the Himalayas with 22 people on board, prepares to take off from the Pokhara airport on May 30, 2022. - Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all but one of 22 people on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside over the weekend, the army said May 30. -- Photo: Prakash Mathema / AFP

2022-05-31 14:26:33

Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all 22 people from a plane that crashed in the Himalayas, authorities said Tuesday as they began identifying the victims.

"All bodies have now been found," Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Deo Chandra Lal Karn told AFP.

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