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German police identify 14 of 18 dead in Nepal crash

By SPA,

Wiesbaden, Germany : Pathologists have identified all 14 foreign tourists aboard a Twin Otter plane that crashed, killing 18 people, in Nepal this month, DPA quoted German federal police as saying Thursday.

Four Nepalese people were killed in the crash on October 8 at Lukla in the Himalayas.

Medical records from the tourists’ homelands were used to identify the foreigners’ remains.

Germany’s BKA federal police sent a pathologist, a dentist and a police physician to Nepal to confirm the identities of 12 Germans and two Australians killed.