Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 15: As many as 36 bodies have been removed from the Nepal plane crash site. 53 bodies, according to media sources from Nepal, appear to have been found thus far.
Rescue personnel was attempting to put out the fire that the plane started as it was coming down.Three of the eleven passengers on board were newborns, according to the passenger manifest, and 11 of them were foreign tourists.
“53 Nepalis, five Indians, four Russians, one Irish national, two Koreans, one Argentinian and a French national were on board at the time of the mishap,” Airport authority officials said.
#UPDATE | Aircraft crash at Pokhara Airport in Nepal | "10 foreign nationals, including 2 infants were on board," Sudarshan Bartaula, spokesperson of Yeti Airlines
— ANI (@ANI) January 15, 2023
Following the passenger plane crash at Pokhara Airport, the government has convened an emergency meeting of the cabinet.
According to news agency ANI, the Yeti Airlines plane carrying up to 68 passengers and four crew members went down between the old airport and the Pokhara International Airport.
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Notably on Sunday, an ATR-72 passenger plane carrying 72 people crashed in Pokhara, Nepal. The flight was going from Pokhara to Kathmandu. Today at 10:33 AM, the flight departed from Tribhuvan International Airport. A few seconds before landing, it crashed.
Between the former domestic airport and Pokhra International Airport, the plane crashed into a forest on the banks of the Seti Gandaki river.
