DAMAULI, MAY 30

Fours members of a single family have died in the Tara air plane crash.

Residents of Teenmane Bhanjhyang Ganesh Narayan Shrestha, 52, his wife Rashmi Shrestha, 48, and two daughters Rojina Shrestha and Rabina Shrestha of ages 23 and 20 respectively have lost thier lives in the accident.

Following the accident, locals of Teenmane Bhanjhyang in Sahid Lakhan Rural Municipality-5 of Gorkha district have been mourning the death of the family members.

Although, the police personnel have not confirmed the death of all of the family members, Chief District Officer of Mustang, Netra Prasad Sharma shared that all of those 22 onboard in the now-crashed flight have lost their lives as 21 bodies have been recovered already while search is on for one missing person.

A few relatives and neighbors of the family have left for Kathmandu after they found that the recovered dead bodies from the incident site are being flown to Maharajgunj-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) for autopsy.

It has been learnt that Roshan Shrestha, who is the son of onboard passenger Ganesh Narayan Shrestha, as soon as the news of the incident broke is in the process of returning to Nepal from the USA.

The two daughters Rashmi and Rojina used to study in the USA and were visiting Nepal during which the family decided to travel to Pokhara. Later, the family had decided to visit Jomsom from Pokhara.