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People were burning, shouting and falling down. It was horrific

‘People were burning, shouting and falling down. It was horrific’

By Sabitri Dhakal

Army personnel, along with police and firefighters, working to recover bodies after an aircraft of the US-Bangla Airlines flying from Dhaka crashed while landing at TIA, in Kathmandu, on Monday, March 12, 2018. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT

Kathmandu, March 12 Bangladeshi citizen Shahreen Ahmed, 29, is one of the passengers of US-Bangla aircraft who survived the crash and is undergoing treatment for burn injuries at Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital. “I was travelling with my friend. When the aircraft was about to land it started turning left. People started shouting. We looked back and saw that the aircraft was on fire. My friend told me to run ahead of him. But while we were running fire engulfed him. He fell down. People were burning, shouting and were falling down. Three people jumped from the burning craft. It was horrific. Fortunately, someone pulled me to safety,” a teary-eyed Shahreen told THT. A teacher by profession, Shahreen had planned to visit Kathmandu and Pokhara. “She has a Lisfranc injury on her right foot. We have put it in a cast. She will undergo surgery after the swelling subsides. She also suffered 18 per cent burns on her back,” said Dr Nazir Khan, orthoresident at the hospital. Another Bangladeshi citizen, Mehdi Hasan, was travelling by air for the first time. His wife, cousin and her daughter were accompanying him. “My seat was at the back. When I saw fire I looked for my family. We tried to break open the window, but in vain. We were looking for someone to rescue us. My wife and I were rescued but my cousin and her daughter are missing,” he told THT. Shahreen and Mehdi Hasan are among the 12 injured survivors undergoing treatment at Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital. Four others who were brought to the hospital have been referred to Grande International Hospital, Neuro Hospital and Nepal Mediciti Hospital. Representatives from the Embassy of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh visited the hospital. Passengers on the ill-fated US-Bangla Airline flight Nepal 1 Abadhesh Kumar Yadav 2 Algina Baral 3 Anjila Shrestha 4 Ashish Ranjit 5 Ashna Shakya 6 Bal Krishna Thapa 7 Basanta Bohara 8 Charu Baral 9 Dayaram Tamrakar 10 Dinesh Humagain 11 Gyani Kumari Gurung 12 Hari Prasad Subedi 13 Hari Sankar Poudel 14 Kishore Tripathi 15 Krishna Kumar Sahani 16 Prabin Chitrakar 17 Princy Dhami 18 Sajana Devkota 19 Samira Byanjakar 20 Sanam Shakya 21 Sanjay Poudel 22 Saruna Shrestha 23 Shreya Jha 24 Shweta Thapa 25 Sila Bajgain 26 Sobindra Singh Bohara 27 Purnima Lohani 28 Meeli Maharjan 29 Neega Maharjan 30 Sanjay Maharjan 31 Keshav Pandey 32 Prasanna Pandey 33 Binod Raj Paudel Bangladesh 34 Almun Nahar Annie 35 Aniruddha Zaman 36 Begum Hurun Nahar Bilquis Banu 37 Bilkis Ara 38 Eakub Ali 39 Emrana Kabir Hasan 40 FH Priok 41 Foysal Ahmed 42 Md Hasan Imam 43 Md Kabir Hossain 44 Md Motiur Rahman 45 Md Nuruz Zaman 46 Md Rafiquz Zaman 47 Md Rezwanul Haque 48 Md Rokibul Hasan 49 Md Shahin Bepari 50 Meenhaz Bin Nasir 51 Mehedi Hasan 52 Mohammad Nazrul Islam 53 MR Alifuzzaman 54 Mst Akhtara Begum 55 Nazia Afrin Chowdhury 56 Pias Roy 57 S M Mahmudur Rahman 58 Saiyada Kamrunnahar Shwarna 59 Sanzida Huque 60 Shahreen Ahmed 61 Sheikh Rashed Rubayet 62 Tahrina Tanvin Shashi Reza 63 Tamarra Pionmoyee 64 Umme Salma 65 Ms Moni Maldives 66 Rizana Abdulla China 67 Zhang Ming Under treatment in hospitals 1 Princy Dhami, 2 Samira Byanjakar 3 Kishore Tripathi 4 Hari Prasad Subedi 5 Basanta Bohara 6 Keshav Pandey 7 Ashis Ranjit 8 Sonam Shakya 9 Dayaram Tamrakar 10 Dinesh Humagain 11 Binod Paudel 12 Imran Kabir Hasan 13 Md Rezwanul Haque 14 Md Kabir Hossain 15 Rasid Hasan 16 Mehedi Hasan 17 Shahreen Ahmed 18 Rizwan Haque 19 Md Shahin Bepari 20 Rizana Abdulla 21 Saiyada Kamrunnahar Shwarna 22 Unidentified (foreigner) READ ALSO: