Plane with 72 people on board crashes in Nepal


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KATHMANDU, Jan 15, 2023 (AFP): An aircraft with 72 people on board crashed in Nepal on Sunday, Yeti Airlines and a local official said.

"There are 68 passengers on board and four crew members... Rescue is underway, we don't know right now if there are survivors," the airline's spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula told AFP.

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