Families Wait Outside Kathmandu Hospital for News of Crash Victims

Relatives of those killed in a plane crash near Kathmandu are gathered outside a local hospital, desperately waiting for news of their loved ones. Many families are clutching photographs, hoping to help identify the victims. Medical teams are struggling to identify bodies, as fingerprints and other identifying marks have proven difficult to scan. The scale of the disaster has made the identification process slow and emotionally grueling for both staff and grieving families. For many relatives, their only remaining hope is to at least recover the remains of those they lost.