Nepal plane crash: 67 killed in mishap, including five Indians
Kathmandu: At least 67 of the 72 people onboard the Yeti Airline ATR-72 aircraft from Kathmandu to Pokhara died as the plane crashed in Pokhara on Sunday morning.
The plane carried 68 passengers as well as four crew members. There were 15 foreign nationals, including six children, were on board. 53 Nepali, 5 Indian, 4 Russian, 2 Koreans, 1 Argentinian, and one each from Ireland, Australia, and France were in the plane, the airlines said in a statement.
Police officer A K Chhetri has said that 31 bodies were taken to hospitals, while 36 passengers’ bodies were found in the gorge where the plane crashed, reports NDTV.
Nepali journalist Dilip Thapa has said that rescue operators are struggling due to the fire at the accident site.
Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda called an emergency Cabinet meeting and the Nepal government has formed a five-member commission to probe the crash.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), the flight took off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am on Sunday. The plane was about to land at the Pokhara airport, when it crashed into a gorge on the bank of River Seti and also caught fire.
The plane crashed about 20 minutes after take-off. The flight time between the two cities is 25 minutes, suggesting that the plane might have crashed during descent.
The airline spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula has said that there is no information regarding survivors yet.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia condoled the loss of lives in the plane crash.
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PM Modi, myself don't have 'wife issue': Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): In a friendly banter, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he didn’t have "the wife issue", as the Congress MP emphasised that everyone has learnt from women in their lives.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the three bills introduced for amendments to the women's quota law and setting up a delimitation commission, Gandhi said women are a driving force in the national imagination and national perspective.
"All of us in this room have been influenced, taught, and have learnt a lot from women in our lives – from mothers, sisters, wives," Gandhi said.
"Of course, the prime minister and myself don't have the wife issue, so we don't get that input, but we have our mothers and sisters," he said while referring to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju's light-hearted remark that he got a scolding at home as he did not pen a poem for his wife like Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal did.
Gandhi also lauded his sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi's speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
"Yesterday, I was watching my sister achieve in five minutes what I have not been able to do in 20 years of my political career – make Amit Shah Ji smile," Gandhi said to peals of laughter.
