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State President sends condolence to Bangladesh over U.S.-Bangla plane crash

VGP – State President Tran Dai Quang on March 22 conveyed his condolences to Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the recent US-Bangla Airlines plane crash.

March 23, 2018 10:13 AM GMT+7

The crash of US-Bangla flight BS211 at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on March 12 killed 51 people, 26 of them were Bangladeshis, according to the online newspaper thedailystar.net.

At least 20 people survived the crash, 10 of them Bangladeshis.  U.S. - Bangla Airlines is a privately owned Bangladeshi airline.