Plane crash: 3 other bodies handed over to families

Staff Correspondent: The bodies of three other Bangladeshis, who were killed in the US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu, have been handed over to their respective families.

The bodies were handed over to their families in presence of Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal and high officials of the ministry.

The three victims are - Alifuzzaman, Nazrul Islam and Piyash Roy. They were identified on Wednesday.

Earlier on Thursday afternoon, the bodies of the three Bangladeshis, who were killed in the US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu, arrived in Dhaka.

A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the bodies, landed at the Shahjalal International Airport in the afternoon.

Earlier on March 19, the identified bodies of 23 Bangladeshi passengers were brought back here by a cargo aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force.

On March 12, 51 people were killed, including 26 Bangladesh nationals, when a US-Bangla Airlines plane crashed in Nepal’s Tribhuvan International Airport. Besides, 10 more Bangladeshis were also injured in the crash.


risingbd/Dhaka/March 22, 2018/Maksud/AI