By IANS,
Chennai : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Sunday condoled the deaths of 19 passengers in an aircraft crash in Nepal.
“I am grieved on hearing the news of plane crash killing 19 people on board on their way back to Kathmandu. I am shocked to hear that majority of the dead are from Tamil Nadu,” Jayalalithaa said in her message.
“I express my heart felt condolences to the members of the bereaved families,” she added.
The Indian embassy in Kathmandu identified the eight people from Tiruchirapalli – around 320 km from here – as M. Maruthachalam, M. Manimaran, A.K. Krisunan, V.M. Kankasabesan, T. Dhansekaran, Kattoor Mahalingam, Meenakshi Sundaram and K. Thyagarajan.
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