At least 67 killed in Nepal plane crash

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 15, 2023 7:11 pm

POKHARA, Nepal: At least 67 people were confirmed dead Sunday when a plane with 72 on board crashed in Nepal, police said, in the Himalayan country's deadliest aviation disaster in three decades.

'Thirty-one (bodies) have been taken to hospitals,' police official AK Chhetri told Agence France-Presse, adding that 36 other bodies were still in the 300-meter (600-foot) gorge the aircraft plunged into.

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