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Eighteen people have been killed in a crash of a passenger plane belonging to Nepal’s Saurya Airlines during takeoff from the capital, Kathmandu. The plane crashed on Wednesday and caught fire. It was carrying two crew members and 17 technicians and was going for regular maintenance to the new airport in Pokhara, which opened in January and is equipped with aircraft maintenance hangars, they said. Eighteen of those on board were Nepali citizens while one engineer was from Yemen, Saurya said. (Agencies) page 5
