Nepal Airlines plane to bring dead bodies of Nepalis from Israel

Kathmandu, Oct 11: The Nepal Airlines (NA)’s aircraft is flying to Israel at 11:00 tonight to bring home dead bodies of the Nepalis from there. According to Deepak Joshi, personal aide of Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Prasad Saud, the national flag-carrier will fly to Israel via Dubai for the same. Altogether 10 Nepali students who had been to Israel under the ‘Learn and Earn’ programme were killed in the terrorist attack at Kibbutz Alumim in southern area of Israel on October 7.

Similarly, search operation for Bipin Joshi, the missing Nepali in the incident, is underway. The Nepali Embassy in Israel stated that they were searching for missing Joshi in various hospitals through a student who was living with Bipin who was rescued safely after the attack. The Nepali diplomatic mission in Israel on Wednesday had appraised the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Bipin was not found during the search in various hospitals and they had sought assistance from Israel for the search.