At least 60 people have died after a plane with 72-onboard crashed on the runway at Pokhara International Airport in Nepal on Sunday.
The Associated Press, citing Nepal’s local media, reported that the Yeti Airlines plane with 68 passengers and 4 crew members crashed on Sunday, January 15, near Pokhara International Airport in the country’s capital.
Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that the plane crashed while flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara in the capital of Nepal.
”The incident was tragic. The full force of the Nepali army and police has been deployed for rescue,” Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said.
He also asked the locals to help find and pull out bodies.
“An official in Nepal said 60 people have been confirmed dead after a regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara, in the country’s deadliest airplane accident in three decades,” AP reported.
It was not immediately clear what caused the plane to crash.
Nepal has a history of air crashes. Last year, 22 people died when a plane crashed on a mountainside in Nepal. Also, in 2016, another plane flying from Pokhara to Kathmandu crashed after takeoff, killing all 23 people aboard.