At least 32 killed as Yeti Airlines flight crashes in Nepal's Pokhara - CNN

Kathmandu, Nepal CNN  — 

At slightest 32 radical were killed connected Sunday erstwhile an craft crashed adjacent cardinal Nepal’s Pokhara, an authoritative said.

Seventy-two radical – 4 unit members and 68 passengers – were connected committee the ATR-72 level operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines erstwhile it crashed, authorities media outlet The Rising Nepal reported.

The territory constabulary and the territory medication bureau are carrying retired a rescue cognition and anticipation to rescue astatine slightest a fewer survivors, said Tek Bahadur K.C., the main territory serviceman of Kaski.

He said 32 dormant bodies were present successful Gandaki Hospital.

The craft had been flying from the superior of Kathmandu to Pokhara, immoderate 129 kilometers (80 miles) westbound of the capital.

Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said helium was “deeply saddened by the bittersweet and tragic accident.”

“I sincerely entreaty to the information personnel, each agencies of the Nepal authorities and the wide nationalist to commencement an effectual rescue,” Dahal said connected Twitter.

The Himalayan state of Nepal, location to 8 of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Everest, has a grounds of aerial accidents. Its upwind tin alteration abruptly and airstrips are typically sited successful difficult-to-reach mountainous areas.

Last May, a Tara Air formation carrying 22 people crashed into a Himalayan upland astatine an altitude of astir 14,500 feet. That was the country’s 19th level clang successful 10 years and its 10th fatal 1 during the aforesaid period, according to the Aviation Safety Network database.

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