46 relatives of victims reach Kathmandu

FT ONLINE

A flight of US-Bangla Airlines, carrying 46 relatives of victims who died and injured in Monday’s deadly crash of its another flight at Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal, reached Kathmandu on Tuesday morning.

The special flight of the airlines that left Dhaka for Nepal around 9:02am with 46 relatives on board landed at the airport around 10:40am, said Md Kamrul Islam, General Manager, Marketing Support and PR of US-Bangla Airlines.

At least 50 people died as the aircraft, which was carrying 67 passengers - 32 from Bangladesh, 33 from Nepal and one each from China and the Maldives - crashed in Nepal. There were four crew members on board.