The bodies of 10 persons, who lost their lives in Tara Air plane crash, have been brought to Kathmandu via Pokhara from Kowang Village in Thasang-2 of Mustang.

A Nepali Army chopper brought the bodies to Kathmandu at 6:30 pm today.

The bodies will be taken to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) from the Tribhuvan International Airport.

The aircraft, which took off for Jomsom from Pokhara at 9: 55 am on Sunday, lost contact with the air traffic control office at 10: 10 am.

The plane was found crashed at Sanosware in Mustang district of Nepal on Monday.

There were 22 people including two German nationals, four Indians and 13 Nepali nationals on board the ill-fated aircraft when the incident occurred. No one survived the incident.

According to the Civil Aviation Office, Pokhara, the deceased have been identified as Indian nationals Vaibhavi Bandekar, Ashok Kumar Tripathy, Dhanush Tripathy and Ritika Tripathy, Nepali nationals Indra Bahadur Gole, Purushottam Gole, Raj Kumar Gole, Basanta Lama, Ganesh Narayan Shrestha, Rabina Shrestha, Rashmi Shrestha, Rojina Shrestha, Prakash Sunuwar, Makar Bahadur Tamang, Ram Maya Tamang, Suku Maya Tamang and Tulusa Devi Tamang.

The identities of the German nationals, however, are yet to be ascertained.