Nepal

A search and recovery team looking for victims of Sunday's Yeti Airlines crash have recovered one more body from the Seti River.

Superintendent Ajay KC, chief of the Kaski District Police Office, said the body of a female was located 300 metres downstream from Seti River gorge, the crash site.

According to him, the bodies of 71 crash victims have been found. Nepali Army divers have been mobilised to search for the missing person.

Human remains found from the river have been transported to a teaching hospital in Kathmandu for DNA testing.

"The search team has retrieved mutilated body parts. If the test results show they belong to two individuals, the total number of bodies will reach 72. Otherwise, the hunt for the missing person will continue," said SP KC.

The Western Regional Hospital in Pokhara has performed autopsy on the bodies of 22 crash victims. After identification, the relatives of 19 victims claimed their remains. Two of the three bodies in the mortuary will be returned to their families on Wednesday, and the third will be returned a few days later.

The bodies of foreign nationals and crew members, which could not be identified, were sent to Kathmandu on Tuesday for autopsies.