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Rescuers scour the crash site in the wreckage of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal, Jan.16, 2023.

Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site

January 16, 2023Community

Rescuers are still searching the debris of a passenger plane that crashed in Nepal’s Himalayan foothills for three missing people, who are believed to be dead.

A woman is show with her face in her hands and crouched down with a man next to her with his hand on her shoulder.

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