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

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BREAKING: 5 dead As plane with 19 on board crashes during take-off (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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Ukhueleigbe Zaccheus is a seasoned journalist who has spent over seven years working as a writer, reporter, Public Relations executive and Editor at Topnaija.ng He is graduate of Mass Communication from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos and Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo.

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