Relatives protest slow handover of plane victims in Nepal

Grief relatives of the victims of a plane crash in Nepal They expressed impatience on Wednesday to ensure that the authorities carried out the autopsies and handed over the bodies for cremation.

the plane of Yeti Airlines with 72 people on board plunged into a gorge on Sunday during the approach to the International Airport of Pokhara in the foothills of the Himalayas. There were no survivors.

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“It’s been four days, but no one listens to us”Maidan Kumar Jaiswal said in anguish on Wednesday in front of the Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine.

He said he wanted a quick autopsy so families could receive the bodies of their loved ones.

“They say they will do a DNA test. My daughter is dead.” said Ashok Rayamagi, father of another victim.

The authorities did not make statements about the autopsies, but it emerged that several bodies showed severe burns.

According to some aviation experts, videos taken from the ground of the last moments of the plane indicate that it suffered a sudden loss of lift for reasons that were not yet clear.

The search for the latest missing person resumed Wednesday with the help of divers and drones, police said. A dam on the Seti River was closed to aid in the search for the body in the 300-meter (984-foot) deep ravine.

Experts from ATR, the French manufacturer of the plane, visited the crash site in Pokharathe gateway to a busy trekking area in the Himalayas.

The Cologne-based European Aviation Safety Agency said it was involved in the investigation together with the French agency BEA, EASA spokeswoman Janet Northcote said.

Rescuers recovered voice and data recorders from the cockpit on Monday. The voice recorder will be analyzed in the country, but the flight data will be sent to France.

Source: Elcomercio

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