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At least 68 killed in Nepal’s worst airplane crash
Published on: 2023-01-16
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At least 68 people were killed Sunday when an aircraft went down near the city of Pokhara in central Nepal, a government official said, the country’s deadliest plane crash in more than 30 years.
 

Seventy-two people – four crew members and 68 passengers – were on board the ATR 72 plane operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines when it crashed, Yeti Airlines spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula said. Thirty-seven were men, 25 were women, three were children and three were infants, Nepal’s civil aviation authority reported.
 

Search efforts were called off after dark, Army spokesman Krishna Prasad Bhandari said, and will resume Monday morning. Hundreds of first responders had been still working to locate the remaining four individuals before then, Bhandari said.
 

Sunday’s incident was the third-deadliest crash in the Himalayan nation’s history, according to data from the Aviation Safety Network. The only incidents in which more people were killed took place in July and September 1992. Those crashes involved aircraft run by Thai Airways and Pakistan International airlines and left 113 and 167 people dead, respectively.
 

The civil aviation authority said that 53 of the passengers and all four crew members were Nepali. Fifteen foreign nationals were on the plane as well: five were Indian, four were Russian and two were Korean. The rest were individual citizens of Australia, Argentina, France and Ireland.
 

至少68人死亡!尼泊尔一客机坠毁

当地时间1月15日上午,尼泊尔雪人航空公司一架从加德满都飞往博克拉的ATR-72型客机在尼中部博克拉地区坠毁。坠毁客机上共搭载72人,包括68名乘客和4名机组人员。昨晚,尼泊尔失事客机所属航空公司发布公报调整遇难者人数,目前已找到68具遇难者遗骸。中国驻尼泊尔大使馆深夜通报:经核实,尼泊尔失事飞机上无中国公民。

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