New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today extended his condolences to the
families of those who lost their lives in the Theni forest fire in Tamil
Nadu and expressed anguished over loss of lives in a plane crash in
Kathmandu and prayed for early recovery of the injured.
Ten
people, who were part of a trekking expedition, have been killed in a
forest fire in the Western Ghats, the Tamil Nadu government said today.
My condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the
Theni forest fire. I hope that those who are injured recover soon, Modi
said in a tweet.
A 36-member team 24 people from Chennai and
12 from Tiruppur and Erode districts on a trekking expedition reached
Kurangani hills on March 10. The team included 25 women and three
children.
The prime minister also expressed anguish over loss of lives in Kathmandu plane crash.
Deeply anguished by the loss of lives due to the plane crash in
Kathmandu. My thoughts are with the families of the deceased and I pray
that those injured recover at the earliest, he said in another tweet.
The
Bangladeshi passenger aircraft crashed and burst into flames today
while landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) here, killing
at least 50 people, in Nepal's worst aviation disaster in more than 25
years.
The Dhaka to Kathmandu US-Bangla Airlines flight, with 67
passengers and four crew members on board, caught fire after it careened
off the runway and ploughed into a football ground near the airport,
TIA spokesperson Prem Nath Thakur said.
Nepal army spokesman Brigadier General Gokul Bhandari said 50 people had died in the crash.
More
than 20 injured were reportedly taken to Kathmandu Medical College for
treatment of which seven were brought dead at the hospital. The
remaining were undergoing treatment for serious burn injuries.
PTI
