OF THE five Indians on board the Yeti Airlines Kathmandu-Pokhara flight which crashed on Sunday, four — Abhishek Kushwaha (25), Vishal Sharma (25), Anil Kumar Rajbhar (25) and Sonu Jaiswal (30) — were friends, all residents of Ghazipur district in Uttar Pradesh. No details are available yet on the fifth person, Sanjay Jaiswal.
Ghazipur District Magistrate Aryaka Akhauri said the administration had reached out to the four families.
While Sharma was from Alawalpur Chatti village in Badesar area of the district, Sonu Jaiswal had houses in Chak Jainab and Alawalpur Chatti but was currently living in Varanasi, Rajbhar was a resident of Chak Jainab in Badesar area, and Kushwaha was from Dharwa in Nonhara area of Ghazipur.