Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday announced financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each for the fam🦩ilies of the four youths from Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh who d✨ied in a plane crash in Nepal.
H🐠e also condoled the loss of lives of the people from Ghazipur in the Sunday's plane crash.
Nepalese authorities on Tuesday started handing over to family members the bodi⛎es of those killed, two days after Yeti Airlines' aircraft with 72 people, including five Indians, crashed in the🌳 resort city of Pokhara, as the death toll rose to 71.
As two more bodies were recovered from th▨e accident site on Tuesday, the total number of confirmed dead has climbed to 71, Nepal Army spokesperson Narayan Siwal said.
"The CM𒅌 has announced financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each to the family of those of Ghazipur who died in the crash," the state government said in a statement issued here🌌.
He said the stateꦫ government will also bear the expense of bringing the bodies from🍷 Nepal.
District Magistrate Aryaka Akhauri had said four youths -- Abhishek Khushwaha , Sonu Jaiswal,𒊎 Vishal Sharma and Anil Kumar Rajbhar -- of Ghazipur were killed in the Nepal crash on Sunday.
