The bodies of 22 persons, who died in a plane crash in northern part of Nepal, have been handed over to their relatives after conducting postmortem at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) on Thursday.
The bodies were airlifted to Kathmandu on Sunday and Monday.
The Twin Otter aircraft of Tara Air, which took off from Pokhara to Jomsom 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 and German nationals Meike Grit Graf and Uwe Willner.
Following the incident, the government formed a five-member commission under the headship of senior Aeronautical Engineer Ratish Chandra Lal Suman to investigate the crash.
Captain Dipu Jwarchan, Senior Maintenance Engineer Upendra Lal Shrestha, Senior Meteorologist Mani Ratna Shakya and Joint Secretary at the Ministry Buddhi Sagar Lamichhane are the other members of the commission.
