US-Bangla flight reaches Nepal with families of crash victims

A US-Bangla flight has reached Nepal with the families of the Bangladeshi crash victims from Dhaka.

Officials of the US-Bangla Airlines said that the flight reached Tribhuvan International Airport at Kathmandu around 10:35am (local time) one and half an hour after it departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka this morning.

The family members were taken to the hospitals to visit the Bangladeshi victims, the sources said.

The flight is carrying 46 passengers – all relatives of those Bangladeshis killed and rescued following the crash of a US-Bangla Airlines flight at Nepal yesterday.

Among those confirmed dead are at least 26 Bangladeshis and 21 Nepalese students who were studying medical studies in Bangladesh.

Source: thedailystar