Nepal finds nearly all victims of plane crash

KATHMANDU, May 30 — Nepal authorities today recovered or located the bodies of all but one of 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside yesterday, officials said, and the government has formed a panel to investigate the incident.

Nepali soldiers and rescue workers had retrieved 20 bodies from the wreckage, strewn across a steep slope at an altitude of around 14,500 feet. They were trying to recover another body they had seen, officials said. “There is very thick cloud in the area,” Netra Prasad Sharma, the most senior bureaucrat in the Mustang district, where the crash took place, told Reuters by phone.

Operated by privately owned Tara Air, the aircraft crashed in cloudy weather and the wreckage wasn’t spotted until this morning by Nepal’s army.

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