At least 68 dead in Nepal’s worst airplane crash

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At least 68 dead in Nepal’s worst airplane crash

At least 68 people were killed Sunday when an aircraft went down near the city of Pokhara in central Nepal.

A CNN report states that this is one of 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 Bhandar said, and will resume Monday morning. Hundreds of first responders had been still working to locate the remaining four individuals before then, Bhandar said.

Among the dead is at least one infant, according to the Nepal’s civil aviation authority.

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