Kathmandu: An Indian Air Force aircraft will fly home on Thursday with victims and the bodies of the 17 Gujarati pilgrims who were killed in a bus accident in Nepal.
All the 17 bodies have been brought to Kathmandu airport from the accident site.
"Twenty-two injured people and 17 bodies of the victims are expected to be airlifted back to India on the IL 76 aircraft by this evening," Indian embassy sources said in Kathmandu.
Forty-four passengers who were travelling in another bus are also being flown to India.
The two buses with Indian number plate were carrying pilgrims to India after a pilgrimage to Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu when of them met with an accident on Wednesday.
At least 17 Indian pilgrims including nine women were killed and 28 others injured when the bus plunged about 100 metres from a mountain highway, 75-km east of Kathmandu.
