Deeply grieved on hearing about air crash in Nepal’s Pokhara: S Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar expressed grief over an air crash in Nepal’s Pokhara on Sunday and said “our thoughts are with the affected families”.

A Nepalese passenger plane with 72 people on board, including five Indians, crashed into a river gorge while landing at the newly-opened airport in central Nepal‘s resort city of Pokhara on Sunday, killing at least 32 people.

According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), the Yeti Airlines’ 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft had taken off from Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am.

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Pokhara is a major tourist destination in the Himalayan nation.

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“Deeply grieved on hearing about the air crash in Pokhara, Nepal. Our thoughts are with the affected families,” Jaishankar said in a tweet.

Five Indians were among the 15 foreign nationals onboard the plane, the Indian Embassy said in a tweet. Their fate is not immediately known.