IAF plane departs for India with bodies of 25 pilgrims killed in Nepal

A special Indian Air Force plane flight with bodies of 25 Indian pilgrims killed in a tragic bus accident in Nepal left for Jalgaon in Maharashtra while the bodies of two deceased would be reaching Maharajgunj in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday evening.

At least 27 Indian pilgrims, all from Maharashtra, who were in Nepal for a 10-day tour, were killed and 16 others injured after their bus veered off the highway and fell into the fast-flowing Marsyangdi river at Abu Khaireni in Tanahun district in central Nepal on Friday.

The deceased and the injured were part of a group of 104 pilgrims on visit to Nepal in three buses.

Indian Embassy sources said here that Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Raksha Nikhil Khadse and Sanjay Savkare, a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Bhusawal constituency, arrived at Kathmandu earlier in the morning by a regular flight to oversee the return of the victims and survivors while the IAF flight special flight directly reached ...