Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal met the families of the passengers who lost their lives in the Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj on Thursday. On the occasion, PM Dahal directed the concerned authority to speed up the post-mortem, make it scientific and hand over the mortal remains to the families at the earliest. The PM's Secretariat said that the Prime Minister urged the hospital administration to ask help from the government to complete the work of identifying the bodies promptly.

The Executive Chief also observed the bodies kept there for identification and met with the kin of the deceased.

Extending condolences to the families of the crash victims, he said that he has instructed the officials concerned to speed up the body handover process. A Yeti Airlines plane that was flying to Pokhara from Kathmandu on January 15 crashed in Pokhara before landing, killing all 72 people on board. The government has formed a high-level investigation commission to probe the incident. The commission has already started its works.