Pokhara

All 72 people on board the passenger plane that crashed yesterday in Nepal have died, TASS reported, referring to the Yeti Airlines airline.

"All have died - 68 passengers and four crew members," a representative of the Nepalese airline told the agency.

The previous figure was for 68 victims.

Passenger plane crash in Nepal. There were 72 people on board - among them four crew members. It is reported that 15 of the passengers are foreigners - there is no evidence that there were Bulgarian citizens among them.

The Yeti Airlines flight was flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara.

The plane crashed near the international airport shortly before landing.

A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reported Sunday.

The plane was carrying 68 passengers and four crew members, the newspaper reported, quoting a spokesperson for Yeti Airlines.

Bulgarian mountaineers Boyan Petrov and Atanas Skatov will be in the same expedition which will attempt to ascend the tenth highest peak in the world - Annapurna in the Himalayas.

Rising at an altitude of 8091 metres, Annapurna is considered as one of the deadliest eight thousanders to climb, with roughly every third attempt resulting in fatality.

An earthquake measuring 7.8 Richter shook Nepal between the capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara in tremors felt as far as Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. A national police spokesman said that 700 people had been killed across the country, rescuers are digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings trying to reach survivors, estimated to number hundreds.