Nepal authorities recover bodies of 14 persons who were on board crashed plane

A general view of a Tara Air plane crash site during the rescue operation at Thasang, Nepal

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Rescue workers in Nepal have so far recovered 14 bodies from the crash site of a small plane carrying 22 people that went down in a remote region, an airport official said on Monday.

“The search for others is continuing,” said Tek Raj Sitaula, a spokesman for the Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu.

(Reporting by Gopal Sharma; Writing by Devjyot Ghoshal; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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