At least 68 people were dead after a Yeti Airlines ATR 72 aircraft carrying 72 on board — including five Indians — crashed in Nepal’s Pokhara around 11 am on Sunday.
Reports said the aircraft, with 68 passengers and four crew on board, crashed a few kilometres from its destination about 20 minutes after it took off from Kathmandu for Pokhara.
Videos and pictures on social media showed smoke billowing from the crash site and hundreds of rescue workers along the sides of a gorge where the plane went down.
“We don’t know right now if there are survivors,” news agency AFP reported Yeti Airlines spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula as saying.
