Thirteen Nepali students of Bangladeshi medical college among passengers of crashed plane

The 67 passengers of the US-Bangla Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal included 13 Nepali students of a medical college in Sylhet, Bangladesh.

The authorities of the Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College said the Nepali students – 11 female and two male - were returning home on Monday after taking MBBS final exams.

“The fate of our students is still unknown to us,” Principal Abed Hossain told bdnews24.com.

The 78-seater Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft took off from Dhaka also with four crew members on board in the afternoon.

It shot off the runway while it was about to crash into a fence of the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu and immediately caught fire around 2:20pm local time.

The passengers included 32 Bangladeshis, 33 Nepalese, one Chinese and one Maldivian.

Officials in Nepal have put the death toll at 50.