At least 68 people died after a passenger jet crashed in central Nepal while attempting to land on a route popular with tourists trekking in the Himalayas.

A twin-engine Yeti Airlines aircraft, which was flying from Kathmandu to the city of Pokhara and had 72 people on board, began spinning sharply at a low altitude while coming in to land.

Video on social media showed the aircraft tilting heavily as it flew low above houses. Later, images from the ground showed burning debris and smoke rising from the crash site on a hillside in the gorge of the Seti River, several miles from Pokhara International Airport.

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