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Nepal plane crash kills at least 50 - army spokesman

Published: 12 Mar 2018 - 02:50 pm | Last Updated: 07 Nov 2021 - 04:09 pm
Nepali rescue workers gather around the debris of an airplane that crashed near the international airport in Kathmandu on March 12, 2018. AFP / Prakash Mathema

Nepali rescue workers gather around the debris of an airplane that crashed near the international airport in Kathmandu on March 12, 2018. AFP / Prakash Mathema

Reuters

New Delhi: A Bangladeshi airliner with 71 people on board crashed on Monday while coming in to land at the airport in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, killing at least 50 people, an army spokesman told Reuters.

Mountainous Nepal is notorious for air accidents.