More than 200 Nepali nationals evacuated from Israel have returned home, as their government worked to bring back the bodies of 10 Nepali students killed in the unprecedented assault by Hamas last weekend.
Nepal’s foreign minister, Narayan Prasad Saud, accompanied 254 citizens on a plane chartered by the government. The returnees were welcomed home by family and friends at Kathmandu airport.
In addition to those killed, four Nepalis were wounded and one is still missing, Saud says. One of the wounded was flown back in the evacuation flight and three others were getting treated at hospitals in Israel, Saud says.
He says 54 Nepali nationals still in Israel have been moved to safer areas and will be evacuated eventually.
Many Nepalis in Israel are students studying agriculture techniques.
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