Plane leaves for Wuhan to bring Nepalis home
Plane leaves for Wuhan to bring Nepalis home
Published: 04:26 pm Feb 15, 2020
KATHMANDU: The airplane, which will bring Nepali students home from Hubei Province of China, has taken off. Government has sent a chartered Nepal Airlines plane to Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus outbreak, to evacuate Nepali students who have been stranded there since the outbreak as the city has been under a lockdown to prevent the spread of infection. The aircraft is scheduled to land at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport at 9:00 pm (China time). Three pilots, six crew members, an engineer, a loadmaster and a health team comprising a doctor, nurses and paramedics from Nepal Army will be flying to Wuhan. A total of 185 Nepalis will reach Kathmandu on Sunday, according to the Nepali Embassy in China. They will land at Tribhuvan International Airport at 2:15 am on Sunday. READ ALSO: