KATHMANDU: At least five people were killed after a helicopter carrying foreign tourists crashed near Mount Everest in Nepal on Tuesday, while another person on the aircraft was still missing.

The helicopter crashed in the Lamajura area and rescuers have recovered the bodies of five people and were searching for the sixth, said Basanta Bhattarai, the chief government administrator in the area.

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