The final rites of Nepal’s Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Rabindra Adhikari were performed with state honour in Pokhara this evening.

His mortal remains were brought to Ramghat in a procession where Nepal Army and Nepal Police personnel offered a gun salute to Adhikari.

His eldest son Biraj Adhikari lit the funeral pyre. Rabindra Adhikari and six other persons including the pilot were killed in a helicopter crash in Taplejung district on Wednesday.

The bodies of helicopter crash victims were brought to Kathmandu yesterday for postmortem. The bodies were kept at Tundikhel in Kathmandu this morning for last respect.

President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, ministers, government officials and general public paid their tribute to Rabindra Adhikari and other victims of the chopper crash.