Cremation held for a victim of the Nepal air crash

(17 Jan 2023)
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Pokhara - 17 January 2023
1. Mid of people crying before cremation of Tribhuvan Paudel, Nepalese journalist killed in Nepal airplane crash
2. Mourners pray over body
3. Various top shots of crowd gathered to mourn and pay tributes to Tribhuvan Paudel along Seti river
4. Preparing cremation ceremony
5. Priest lights the funeral pyre
6. Various of people attending the cremation ceremony
7. Top shot of cremation ceremony
8. Various of body of a victim on truck, to be handed over to relatives and friends
9. Various of crash site
STORYLINE:
On Tuesday afternoon, over 150 people gathered at Tulsi Ghat, a cremation ground on the banks of the Seti River in Pokhara, to mourn Tribhuwan Paudel, a 37-year-old journalist and editor at a local newspaper, who died in a plane crash on Sunday.

As a priest lit the funeral pyre, close friends of Paudel came together to remember him.

The flight plummeted into a gorge on Sunday while on approach to the newly opened Pokhara International Airport in the foothills of the Himalayas, killing at least 70 of the 72 people aboard.
 
The twin-engine ATR 72-500, operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, was completing the 27-minute flight from the capital, Kathmandu, to the resort city of Pokhara, 200 kilometers (125 miles) west.
 
The aircraft was carrying 68 passengers, including 15 foreign nationals and four crew members.

The foreigners included five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, and one each from Ireland, Australia, Argentina and France.

Pokhara is the gateway to the Annapurna Circuit, a popular hiking trail in the Himalayas.

Funerals for other victims, many of whom were from the area, are expected in the coming days.

They include a pharmaceutical marketing agent who was traveling to be with his sister as she gave birth, and a minister of a South Korean religious group who was going to visit the school he founded. 
 
Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains including Mount Everest, has a history of air crashes.

Sunday’s crash is Nepal’s deadliest since 1992, when all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it plowed into a hill as it tried to land in Kathmandu.
 
According to the Flight Safety Foundation’s Aviation Safety database, there have been 42 fatal plane crashes in Nepal since 1946.

AP video shot by Man Bahadur Gharti, Krishna Mani Baral and Yunish Gurung

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