KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 9
Two Indian tourists who had been missing for three weeks were found dead on Sunday.
They have been identified as Jignesh Kumar Lallubhai Patel (52) and Priyansa Kumari Patel (17), according to Chief District Officer Naba Raj Poudyal.
A security team led by Superintendent of Police Hira Bahadur GC from the Armed Police Force (APF) discovered their bodies buried under snow, about 100 meters above Milarepa Monastery.
The Indian nationals had reportedly gone sightseeing to the monastery in Ngisyang Rural Municipality–5 from the nearby Gyaltsen Hotel on October 20. They subsequently went out of contact, prompting the hotel management to inform the APF Mountain Rescue Training Centre in Manang, which then initiated a search operation.
As of the time of filing this report, the bodies were being transported to the Provincial Hospital in Manang. According to CDO Poudyal, they will be sent to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu on Monday for further examination.
(With inputs from Rastriya Samchar Samiti)
