All 24 Aboard Killed in Helicopter Crash
From Times Wire Reports
Searchers in Nepal found the wreckage of a helicopter that disappeared over the weekend while carrying 24 people on a flight chartered by the World Wildlife Fund. No one survived, officials said.
Among those killed in the crash in mountains east of Katmandu, the capital, were Americans Margaret Alexander, a USAID deputy director in Nepal, and Matthew Preece, a WWF program officer, the group’s website said. Nepalese Forestry Minister Gopal Rai also died.
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