Kathmandu, June 22
A Nepal Airlines plane is preparing to bring home the 12 Nepali nationals, who died in a terrorist attack in the Afghan capital on Monday.
The 12 Nepalis, working as security guards at the Canadian Embassy in Kabul, died in a Taliban suicide attack while they were heading to the work station in a bus.
The plane landed at Kabul at 6.30 am and plans to bring the bodies to Kathmandu at 11.30 am. A meeting held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday under Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Kamal Thapa had decided to airlift the bodies using an NA plane.
Usually, Tribhuvan International Airport operates from 6 am till 12 (midnight). Due to extraordinary circumstances, the flight for Kabul left at 3.30 am, NA General Manager Sugat Ratna Kamshakar said.
The government plans to bring back Nepali nationals willing to return home from Afghanistan. Yadav Prasad Koirala, spokesperson for the Ministry of Home Affairs, said the government has made arrangements to bring them home on the NA Boeing.
Those wishing to return home can contact the Nepali Embassy in Pakistan or Nepal’s Acting Ambassador to Pakistan, who is in Kabul at present. But airlifting the 12 bodies and five Nepali nationals injured in the attack is top priority.
