Passenger plane crashed at Pokhara airport in Nepal, 40 people died so far

A passenger plane has crashed in Pokhara, Nepal on Sunday morning. Forty bodies have been recovered from this 72-seater aircraft. An army spokesman said that after more than 30 years such a gruesome accident has happened in Nepal. Krishna Bhandari told Reuters news agency that rescue teams were at the scene and more bodies were expected to be found.

There were 53 Nepalese nationals, 5 Indians, 4 Russians, one Irish, 2 Koreans, one Argentine and one French national on board the plane that crashed at Pokhara airport in Nepal.

Yeti Airlines ATR 72 aircraft had taken off from Kathmandu to Pokhara on Sunday morning, but the plane crashed in Pokhara in Kaski district. Rescue work is going on after the accident. For this reason the airport was closed for the time being. At the time of the accident, there were 68 passengers and four crew members on board the plane of Yeti Airlines.

Airline spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula said the ATR-72 aircraft operated by Nepal's Yeti Airlines had 72 people on board, including two infants. Apart from this, four crew members and 10 foreign nationals are also included in the aircraft. He told that so far information about foreign nationals has not been received. We are trying to trace it and hundreds of rescue workers are combing the accident site. He told that this is the deadliest accident in Nepal since 1992.