According to the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority, a domestic plane that crashed in the Pokhara region on Sunday killed at least 68 people.
According to Nepalese authorities, the disaster marks the country’s deadliest jet crash in 30 years, according to Voice of America.
The hillside where the Yeti Airlines plane carrying 72 people from the nation’s capital, Kathmandu, crashed was being searched by a large number of Nepalese rescuers.
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Local television showed rescuers scurrying around wreckage of the airplane while some of the nearby terrain was charred and flames could be seen.
According to the Aviation Safety Network database, the incident is the deadliest to occur in Nepal since 1992, when a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A300 struck a hillside as it was on its approach to Kathmandu, killing all 167 aboard.
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