13 bodies found in Nepal aircraft crash
Updated: 2014-02-17 13:49
(Xinhua)
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A relative of victims (C) is crying outside the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Feb 16, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua] |
KATHMANDU - A twin otter plane belonging to Nepal Airlines which was missing in mid-western Nepal on Sunday afternoon has been crashed and found in the forest of Argakhanchi district, Nepali police said Monday.
A total of 13 bodies were found at the site, an aviation official said on Monday.
Located in Lumbini Zone, Argakhanchi district is 215 km away from capital Kathmandu.
The 9N-ABB plane, with 18 people aboard, got missed Sunday afternoon, and its wreckage was found Monday morning a few kilometers from Khidim, a small town in Arghakhachi district, southern Nepal.
"The dead bodies of 13 passengers have been recovered from the site," Bhesh Raj Subedi, an official at Nepal's aviation regulator Civil Aviation Authority told Xinhua by phone.
All the 18 people aboard the ill-fated plane, including three crew members, one child and a Danish national, are feared to be dead, Subedi said.
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