1 May 2020, Pokhara
The dead bodies of two more people who went missing after being hit by an avalanche around Hinku Cave in Annapurna Rural Municipality-11 on January 17 has been found on Friday.
With this, the dead bodies of all the seven missing in Annapurna avalanche have been found. The trekkers include three Nepali tourist guides and four South Korean tourists.
The bodies of Nepali guide Chhiring Bhote and another Korean tourist were found on Friday.
According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Raj Kumar KC, Spokesperson at the District Police Office, a team comprising Nepal Army, Nepal Police and locals, who have been searching for the missing for four days, found their bodies.
An army helicopter was ready to retrieve their bodies but could not reach the site due to bad weather, shared Spokesperson KC.
The bodies have been found on different dates after the heavy snow started melting at the site with the onset of summer. Tourists and Nepali guides were lost in an avalanche an altitude of 3,200 meters during the Annapurna trek.
