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Nepal rescuers find 3 bodiesnear crashed US Marine

Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of


a U.S. Marine helicopter that disappeared earlier this week while on a
relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, officials said.
Nepals Defense Secretary Iswori Poudyal gave no details about the
nationalities of the victims. The helicopter was carrying six Marines
and two Nepalese army soldiers.
The wreckage was found near Gothali village in the district of
Dolakha.
The U.S. Embassy in Nepal had no immediate comment Friday.
The discovery of the wreckage, first spotted by a Nepalese army
helicopter Friday, followed days of intense search involving U.S. and
Nepalese aircraft and even U.S. satellites.
The U.S. relief mission was deployed soon after a magnitude-7.8
quake hit April 25, killing more than 8,200 people. It was followed by
another magnitude-7.3 quake on Tuesday that killed 117 people and
injured 2,800.
The second quake was centered between Kathmandu and Mount
Everest, and hit hardest in deeply rural parts of the Himalayan
foothills, hammering many villages reached only by hiking trails and
causing road-blocking landslides.

Regu penyelamat Nepal menemukan 3 mayat di dekat jatuhnya Marinir AS


Nepal penyelamat pada hari Jumat menemukan tiga mayat di dekat reruntuhan helikopter
Marinir AS yang hilang awal pekan ini saat misi bantuan di negara Himalaya yang dilanda
gempa, kata para pejabat.
Menteri Pertahanan Nepal Iswori Poudyal tidak memberikan rincian tentang kebangsaan dari
para korban. Helikopter itu membawa enam Marinir dan dua tentara tentara Nepal.
Reruntuhan pesawat ditemukan di dekat desa Gothali di distrik Dolakha.
Kedutaan Besar AS di Nepal tidak memiliki komentar segera Jumat.
Penemuan reruntuhan, pertama kali ditemukan oleh helikopter tentara Nepal Jumat, diikuti hari
pencarian intens melibatkan AS dan pesawat Nepal dan bahkan satelit AS.
AS misi bantuan dikerahkan setelah berkekuatan 7,8-gempa melanda 25 April menewaskan
lebih dari 8.200 orang. Hal ini diikuti oleh yang lain berkekuatan 7,3 gempa pada Selasa yang
menewaskan 117 orang dan melukai 2.800.
Gempa kedua berpusat antara Kathmandu dan Gunung Everest, dan paling terpukul di bagian
sangat pedesaan kaki bukit Himalaya, memalu banyak desa dicapai hanya dengan hiking trails
dan menyebabkan tanah longsor jalan-blocking.

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