Relatives gather outside the residence of Junaid Jamshed, pop star turned evangelical Muslim cleric, in Karachi, Pakistan December 7, 2016. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - There were no survivors after a plane carrying 47 people crashed into a mountain in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, the airline's chairman said, as recovery operations continued late into the night at the remote crash site.
The military said 40 bodies had been recovered and rescue efforts involved about 500 soldiers, doctors and paramedics. The bodies were shifted to the Ayub Medical Centre in nearby Abbottabad, about 20km (12 miles) away.
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