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US-Bangla plane crash: Families receive bodies of three remaining victims
Bodies of the three remaining Bangladeshi victims of the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash have been brought back home.
Published : 22 March 2018, 01:00 PM
Updated : 22 March 2018, 01:01 PM
A Biman Bangladesh aircraft, carrying the coffins, landed in Dhaka shortly after 4pm on Thursday.
On Mar 12, a Dash-8 Q400 plane of the airline crashed as it tried to land in the Nepali capital, killing 49 people—26 of them Bangladeshis, including four crew members.
The bodies of the 23 victims were flown back to Dhaka on Monday and handed over to families.
On Wednesday, Nepali authorities informed the Bangladesh Embassy that the bodies of the three remaining dead Bangladeshi passengers — Alifuzzaman, Pias Roy and Mohammad Nazrul Islam — were identified.
On Thursday, the Bangladesh mission in Kathmandu held a funeral service at its premises after Nepali authorities handed over the bodies.
Civil Aviation Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal handed over the bodies of the three to their families at the Dhaka airport.
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