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Six people survived a plane crash in Nepal, while 15 were killed
The wrecked aircraft was in pieces but did not catch fire. Following the tragedy, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai issued a statement expressing condolences at the deaths of the 15 people
According to Nepal officials, 15 people were killed and 6 miraculously survived, though critically injured in the plane crash in that happened in the Himalayas on Monday, May 14. The pilot was attempting to return to Pokhara shortly after taking off, detecting technical problem with the plane. The right wing struck the hillside and crashed.
The plane hit a mountain while it was turning around to land at Jomsom Airport, said Laxmi Raj Sharma, chief government administrator in the area. The wrecked aircraft was in pieces but did not catch fire. Following the tragedy, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai issued a statement expressing condolences at the deaths of the 15 people.
"We were thrown around. The seats were unfastened and we were squeezed between seats and bodies," Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet quoted Ms Joergensen as saying. The Danish foreign ministry in Copenhagen said two Danes had also been rescued and were being treated in the city of Pokhara, 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Jomsom.
The incident was the second deadly air accident for Agni Air in less than two years. In August 2010, one of its planes crashed in bad weather near Kathmandu, killing all 14 people on board, including four Americans, a Japanese and a British national.
(Indian child Siparda, a survivor of yesterday's Agni Air crash in Jomsom, recuperates at the Manipal Hospital in Pokhara on May 15, 2012 - picture below.)
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