24 dead in Nepal WWF air crash
Media Reports
Sep. 25, 2006

All 24 people on board a helicopter chartered by conservation group WWF in Nepal were killed after the aircraft crashed in bad weather two days ago, officials said on Monday.

Of the 20 passengers and four crew, 17 were Nepalis. Others included a Finnish diplomat, two Americans, a Canadian and an Australian, as well as two Russians. The wreckage of the Russian-made helicopter was found earlier on Monday by a Nepali army team after incessant rains and fog had hampered rescue efforts. The army helicopter found the crashed aircraft about 2 km southwest of Ghunsa, a village in Taplejung district, about 300 km (190 miles) east of the capital, Kathmandu. "There are no survivors," Purushottam Shakya, who coordinates rescues from Kathmandu airport, told Reuters. Officials said the helicopter was found broken into pieces. Plans were being made to recover bodies and more helicopters were being rushed to Taplejung, they added.

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