DHAKA: The Nepalese army said on Saturday that troops had found the bodies of all eight people from the wreckage of a US helicopter which crashed while delivering aid in the quake-devastated country.

The UH-1Y Huey was carrying six US Marines and two soldiers from the Nepalese army when it went missing during a relief flight in the mountainous north-eastern region on the same day that a second quake hit the country.

‘Nepalese and US troops recovered all eight bodies from the crash site this morning,’ major general Binoj Basnyat told the media by telephone, reports The Straits Times.

‘None of the bodies are recognisable,’ Basnyat said.

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