Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Thursday reached the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital to meet the families of the persons who lost their lives in a Yeti Airlines aircraft crash.

Expressing his condolences to the families, the prime minister directed the hospital authorities to speed up the process of the identification of the bodies, make the process scientific and hand over the bodies to the relatives at the soonest.

According to the prime minister’s secretariat, Prime Minister Dahal requested the hospital’s officials to ask for necessary assistance from the government for establishing the identity of the deceased at the earliest.

The prime minister also inspected the bodies kept for identification.

Nepal saw its worst domestic air disaster on Sunday morning when Yeti Airlines flight NYT 691 from Kathmandu to Pokhara crashed a few minutes before landing at the new international airport.

The plane carried 72 persons, including passengers and crew, and the dead bodies of 71 persons have been recovered so far.