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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 as Tribhuvan Paudel, central member of Federation of Nepali Journalists, 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 crash. Assistant Chief District Officer of Kaski Gurudatta Dhakal said 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. ALSO READ: 69 dead, 3 missing in plane crash at Seti gorge  

Rescue teams have recovered 68 bodies from the Yeti Airlines plane crash site so far. They are searching for the remaining four. Police said that the bodies have been brought to the Gandaki Hospital. A Yeti Airlines plane carrying 68 passengers crashed in Pokhara on Sunday. The plane with call sign ATR-72 took off from Kathmandu to Pokhara at 10: 33 am today, police said. According to Sudarshan Bartaula, spokesperson of the Yeti Airlines, there were two pilots, two air hostesses and 68 passengers on board the ill-fated aircraft that crashed between the old airport and the Pokhara International Airport this morning.  

The identities of the passengers who were in the aircraft belonging to Yeti Airlines have been ascertained. There were 68 passengers—60 Nepali nationals and eight foreign ones and four crew members including Captains Kamal KC and Anju Khatiwada were on board the aircraft when it crashed. Three of the passengers were infants, three minors, and three incapacitated people. ALSO READ: Yeti Airlines plane carrying 68 passengers crashes in Pokhara The Nepali passengers have been identified as Kisan Acharya, Nishanta Acharya, Shaligram Acharya, Sadakat Alimiya, Purna Bahadur Gurung, Jitendra Bahadur Kunwar, Alina Bandro and Anisha Baniya, Slok Bhatta, Nira Chhantyal, Aashima Gurung, Anusha Gurung, Belman Gurung, Bijaya Kumar Gurung, Jiban Kala Gurung, Maya Gurung, Lucky Gurung, Shiva Kumar Gurung, Sita Gurung, Yamuna Gurung, Yasmin Gurung, Rabin Hamal, Sanjaya Jiasawal, Sonu Jaisawal, Rachana Kafle, Sita Kumari Khadka, Anil Kumar Rajbhar, Bhagawati Kunwar, Abishek Kushwaha, Om Maya Gurung, Susma Pandey, Hari Pariyar, Laxmi Pariyar, Rita Pariyar, Arun Paudel, Laxmi Paudel, Prasiddhi Paudel, Tribhuvan Paudel and Pojan Rana, Sabina Rayamajhi, Rajan Sapkota, Anil Shahi, Sangita Shahi, Jamuna Sharma, Bishal Sharma, Yubaraj Sharma, Mohan Shrestha, Dr Shona Diwakar, Bandana Sunsar, Rajusingh Thakuri, Churna Thapa, Ganesh Thapa and Lawaraj Timilsina. Likewise, the children have been identified as Krish Pariyar, Prasiddhi Paudel and Aayurdhi Sharma, and identities of three infants are yet to be established. The foreign nationals have been identified as Love Mayron, IIurii Lygin, Victor Lygin, Jannetsandra Palavecino, Victoria Altunina, Elena Banduro, Ruan Calum Crighton and Alexandre Isidore.  

Two helicopters have been deployed to the Yeti Airlines plane crash site in Pokhara to carry out rescue operations. In a statement issued by the Search and Rescue Coordination Center of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), NALX and NALA choppers have been deployed from Pokhara. The Center said that more helicopters have been kept on standby in Pokhara and Kathmandu to carry out and search rescue operations. It further said that rescue operations are being carried out with the help of Nepal Army, Armed Police Force and Nepal Police personnel. According to the Center, there were 53 Nepalis, four crew members, five Indian nationals, four Russian nationals and two Korean nationals on the ill-fated aircraft. Similarly, one Argentinian, one Irish and one French national were also on the plane. The crew members were Captains Kamal KC and Anju Khatiwada while flight attendants were Srijana Hongchun and Oshin Ale Magar. According to Yeti Airlines spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula, the aircraft with call sign ATR-72 that took off from Kathmandu to Pokhara at 10: 33 am today crashed between the old airport and the Pokhara International Airport at 10: 50 am. ALSO READ: PM Dahal calls emergency Cabinet meeting following plane crash in Pokhara