Plane with 72 people on board crashes in Nepal - Al Jazeera English

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The level was en way from the superior Kathmandu to Pokhara erstwhile it crashed with 72 radical connected board.

At slightest 16 radical person been killed aft an craft carrying 72 radical crashed successful Nepal.

The level was flying from the superior Kathmandu to Pokhara connected Sunday erstwhile it crashed. Pokhara is simply a bustling tourer municipality astir 200km (124 miles) westbound of Kathmandu.

There were 72 radical connected the twin-engine ATR 72 craft operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, including 2 infants, 4 unit members and 10 overseas nationals, said hose spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula.

“We expect to retrieve much bodies,” service spokesperson Krishna Bhandari told Reuters quality agency.

Local tv showed heavy achromatic fume billowing from the clang tract arsenic rescue workers and crowds of radical gathered astir the wreckage of the aircraft.

“Responders person already reached determination and trying to douse the fire. All agencies are present focused connected archetypal dousing the occurrence and rescuing the passengers,” section authoritative Gurudutta Dhakal said.

Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has called an exigency furniture gathering aft the level crash, a authorities connection said.

In May, a level owned by Tara Air crashed little than 20 minutes aft taking disconnected from Pokhara, headed to Jomsom – a fashionable trekking and pilgrimage destination successful Mustang territory bordering Tibet.

In 2018, a US-Bangla rider level from Bangladesh crashed connected landing successful Kathmandu, sidesplitting 49 of the 71 radical connected board.

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