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Scores of people were killed on Sunday when a plane crashed in Nepal.
周日，一架飞机在尼泊尔坠毁，造成数十人死亡。
The Yeti Airlines domestic flight was carrying 72 people from the capital Kathmandu when it went down in Pokhara in clear weather, according to officials from Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority.
据尼泊尔民航局官员称，这架雪人航空公司的尼泊尔国内航班，是从该国首都加德满都起飞，当时天气晴朗，最终坠毁于博卡拉地区，机上共载有72人。
Footage shows rescuers scouring the wreckage and scorched earth around the site.
视频显示，救援人员正在废墟和现场周围的焦土中搜寻。
Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport,
尼泊尔总理帕苏巴·卡麦尔·达哈尔已经抵达加德满都特里布万国际机场，
said it was a "tragic" incident and that he'd be calling an emergency cabinet meeting, with an ongoing investigation into the cause.
他表示，这是一起“悲剧性”事件，他将召开紧急内阁会议，并对事故原因进行调查。
A Yeti Airlines spokesman confirmed those aboard the twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft included two infants and four crew members.
雪人航空公司一位发言人证实，这架双引擎ATR-72型飞机上还有两名婴儿和四名机组人员。
It was also carrying international passengers including five Indians, four Russians and one Irish, two South Koreans, one Australian, one French and one Argentine national.
机上还载有一些国际乘客，其中包括5名印度人、4名俄罗斯人、1名爱尔兰人、2名韩国人、1名澳大利亚人、1名法国人和1名阿根廷人。
Deadly air incidents are common in Nepal, which has small airports in mountainous terrain where weather conditions can change quickly.
致命的空中事故在尼泊尔很常见，因为该国的山区有一些小型机场，那里的天气状况可能会迅速变化。
And the European Union has banned Nepali airlines from its airspace since 2013, citing safety concerns.
出于安全考虑，欧盟自2013年起禁止尼泊尔航空公司进入其领空。
The Sunday crash is Nepal's worst since 1992, the Aviation Safety Network database showed,
航空安全网数据库显示，周日的这起坠机事故，是尼泊尔自1992年以来最严重的一次，
when a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A300 crashed into a hillside upon approach to Kathmandu, killing all 167 people on board.
当年，巴基斯坦国际航空公司一架空客A300飞机在接近加德满都时撞上了山坡，机上167人全部遇难。
