Some volunteers from Israel’s ZAKA rescue and recovery organisation have arrived in Nepal to assist in the recovery and identification of an American Jewish tourist who was killed in the Agni Air plane crash in Makawanpur district.
According to The Jerusalem Post, the UN-recognised organisation sent the team after the Nepali authorities failed to recover and identify the badly charred remains of Irina Shekhets, 30.
The forensic experts could not identify the mortal remains of the victims collected from the crash site and brought to Kathmandu as none of the bodies was intact but severed and charred.
The ZAKA team is working in full cooperation with the Chabad House in Kathmandu, which is coordinating the recovery efforts with the local authorities, and the Foreign Ministry’s situation room, which assisted the team in obtaining the necessary visas, the daily reported on August 31.
The ZAKA volunteers have secured Shekhets’s dental records from the US for identification purposes.
It is expected that Israeli backpackers currently at the Kathmandu Chabad House will join the ZAKA volunteers in their search of the crash site.
All 14 people—eight Nepalis including three crew members, four Americans, one Briton and one Japanese—on board were killed when the Agni Air Dornier aircraft crashed in a remote village in Makawanpur on August 24. The aircraft that was heading to Lukla on the lap of Mount Everest was returning to Kathmandu after failing to land there due to bad weather.
The cause of the crash is yet unknown.
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