Insurance for Taplejung chopper crash

Famiies of 24 people who died in the Shree-airlines helicopter crash in Taplejung on September 23 would get insurance money amounting to $20,000 for each.

Managing director of Shree Airlines, Banwarilal Mittal, said that procedures to provide insurance money to the victims' families has been initiated and insurance company concerned was positive in this regard.

He further informed that the certificates of registration of death, citizenship certificates and kinship certificates will be collected from the families of the dead for the purpose.

Minister of State for Forest and Soil Conservation, Gopal Rai, senior officials of the ministry, the WWF Nepal and Kathmandu-based foreign missions lost their lives in one of the deadliest crashes in Nepal’s aviation history. nepalnews.com pb Oct 15 06

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