KATHMANDU, Nepal — Eight bodies were found at the site of the crash of a United States Marine helicopter that disappeared in Nepal while assisting in earthquake relief efforts, the Nepalese Army said Saturday evening.

Six Marines and two Nepali soldiers were aboard the UH-1 Huey when it lost radio contact on Tuesday after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake, the worst aftershock since the April 25 quake that killed more than 8,000 people.

The bodies were not recovered, according to Nepal’s army in a revision of an earlier statement, because bad weather halted efforts to lift them from the scene.

The wreckage of the helicopter was discovered Friday on a high mountain pass near the village of Charikot, amid treacherous conditions that made recovery efforts dangerous.