(UPDATED) POKHARA, Nepal: At least 67 people were confirmed dead Sunday when a plane with 72 on board crashed in Nepal, police said, in the Himalayan country's deadliest aviation disaster in three decades. "Thirty-one [bodies] have been taken to hospitals," police official AK Chhetri told Agence France-Presse, adding that 36 other bodies were still in the 300-meter (600-foot) gorge the aircraft plunged into. This was partially confirmed by the army, with a spokesman saying 29 bodies had been retrieved and that there were 33 more at the site in Pokhara in central Nepal. "The aircraft crashed into a gorge so it is difficult to bring the bodies. Poor recordNepal's air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers and climbers.

Source: Manila Times January 15, 2023 07:45 UTC