Nepalese authorities on Tuesday started handing over to family members the bodies of those killed, two days after Yeti Airlines' aircraft with 72 people crashed in the resort city of Pokhara, as the death toll rose to 71.As two more bodies were recovered from the accident site on Tuesday, the total number of confirmed dead has climbed to 71, One person was still missing and the search operation is continuing to retrieve the last body, according to the Nepal Army sources.

Rescuers have been working almost around the clock extracting human remains from the 300-meter (1,000-foot) deep gorge strewn with twisted plane seats and chunks of fuselage and wing. On Tuesday, hospital workers in blue and white protective suits and masks loaded bodies wrapped in plastic onto army trucks as distraught relatives wept and hugged outside. The trucks then left for the airport, where the bodies would be airlifted back to the capital Kathmandu for Post mortem and DNA tests. Around Ten bodies have been handed to families in Pokhara. Authorities will hand over another 14 bodies after completing autopsies in Pokhara.