BREAKING: 5 dead as plane crashes with 19 onboard (VIDEO)

The bodies of five people have been recovered after a plane carrying 19 passengers crashed at an airport in Nepal’s Kathmandu, Topnaija.ng gathered.

The Saurya Airlines plane crashed at around 11:15 am (0530 GMT), Nepal’s military said in a statement.

“Rescue work is going on” with the army’s quick response team lending assistance, the statement added.

Further details were “still being confirmed”, Kathmandu airport general manager Jagannath Niroula told AFP.

The Kathmandu Post newspaper said 19 people including air crew were aboard the flight.

News portal Khabarhub reported that the airplane had caught fire after skidding on the runway and was “releasing a significant plume of smoke”.

The plane was en route to Pokhara, an important tourism hub in the Himalayan republic.

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