8 years ago
Kathmandu:
A Bangladeshi aircraft carrying 67 passengers and four crew crashed on Monday while coming in to land at the airport in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, an airport official said, adding that 17 people on board had been rescued. Fifty people have been killed, Reuters reported. The state of the other people on the flight from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, operated by US-Bangla Airlines, was not clear, Tribhuvan International Airport spokesperson Birendra Prasad Shrestha said. "We are trying to bring the fire under control. Details are awaited," he said, adding that the airport had been shut down and all other flights diverted. "We're now concentrating on evacuating the passengers." Television images showed smoke rising from the crash site.
