Irish citizen among 68 dead after Yeti Airlines plane crashed in Pokhara minutes before landing
Rescuers resumed searching on Monday in Nepal for four people still missing. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty ImagesRescuers resumed searching on Monday in Nepal for four people still missing after the Himalayan nation’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said.
The plane, on a scheduled flight from Kathmandu to Pokhara, was carrying 57 Nepalis, five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, and one person each from Argentina, Ireland, Australia and France.Pokhara police official Ajay KC said the search-and-rescue operation, which stopped because of darkness on Sunday, had resumed.
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