KATHMANDU, Jul 24 (NNN-XINHUA) – Eighteen dead bodies have been recovered, after a plane crashed today, at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, said Hansa Raj Pandey, spokesman at the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN).
Pandey told Xinhua that, one injured person has been hospitalised, and the airport has been closed over the incident.
The spokesman initially put the death toll at 22, but he corrected it later, saying, the rescue team double-counted three people.
The CAAN’s search and rescue coordination centre issued a statement, saying 18 were killed and 1 injured in the incident.
The Saurya Airlines flight, bound for the city of Pokhara, was carrying 19 people, and all of them were from the airline, said Pandey.
A witness said, the plane nosedived into the ground and an explosion could be heard from inside the airport.– NNN-XINHUA
