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Breaking live report: Passenger air crash at Kathmandu airport, many feared killed

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Fifty people are feared killed after a Bangladeshi plane with 67 passengers on board crashed near Kathmandu airport on Monday as it was coming in to land, officials said, as firefighters battled to extinguish the burning wreckage and rescue passengers.

“31 died at the spot and nine died at two hospitals in Kathmandu,” police spokesman Manoj Neupane told news agency AFP, adding another 23 were injured.

Flight operations shut down at Kathmandu Airport. Nepal Army is carrying out rescue operations.

An airport spokesperson told the paper that casualties were feared.

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The plane can reportedly carry 78 passengers and firefighters were at the scene trying to extinguish a fire, local news site My Republica reported.

Photos and video posted on social media showed smoke rising from an airport runway.

The plane was identified in local media as S2-AGU, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, but this has not been officially confirmed.

The plane “became unstable” while descending, another airport official said.

The flight landed at TIA airport, also known as Kathmandu International Airport, at 14:20 local time (08:35 GMT).

 

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