Bhairahawa, April 1 -- Nepal repatriated nine bodies of migrant workers from Kuwait whose bodies had been stranded due to the ongoing West Asia conflict. Along with the bodies, hundreds of stranded migrant workers were also rescued from the Gulf region.

A chartered Kuwait Airways flight landed at the Gautam Buddha International Airport (GBIA) on Wednesday late evening with the bodies and the rescued migrant workers.

"Those Nepali migrant workers who were stranded in Kuwait have been evacuated and brought here on a Kuwait Airways Boeing 777-300 aircraft. The aircraft has a passenger capacity of 345 seats, and a total of 318 passengers have arrived here today. Apart from that, the bodies of the nine Nepali migrant workers who died in Kuwa...