Bodies of four students arriving from Israel today

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, Oct. 22: The bodies of four of the 10 Nepali students killed in Israel will arrive in Nepal on Sunday.

As per the Embassy of Nepal in Israel, the bodies will arrive in Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport on Sunday morning on a Flydubai plane. 

Issuing a statement on Saturday, the embassy also said that it was working to identify the remaining bodies. It also stressed that it was using all the resources at its disposal to find Bipin Joshi, who has been missing since October 7 when the Hamas attacked Kibbutz-Alumim in southern Israel. 

The 10 Nepalis also lost their lives in the same attack.

Earlier, the government had rescued 253 Nepali students who had reached Israel under 'learn and earn' programme through the government-to-government agreement between the two countries. They were the students of various universities in Nepal.

Later, another batch of eighteen Nepalis were sent from Tel Aviv to New Delhi in commercial flight of Spicejet Airlines. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, about 4,500 Nepalis are in Israel doing various jobs.