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Five Mexicans, Nepali pilot killed in helicopter crash near Mount Everest in Nepal

All six people, including five members of a Mexican family, were killed in a fiery crash of a private commercial helicopter near Mount Everest in eastern Nepal on July 11, a senior airport official said.

The Manang Air NA-MV chopper took off from Surke Airport in Solukhumbu district at 10:04 a.m. for Kathmandu and suddenly lost contact at an altitude above 12,000 feet at 10:13 a.m., said Gyanendra Bhul, Manager at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA).

The helicopter crashed in the Lamjura area of Likhupike Rural Municipality in the remote mountainous Solukhumbu district.

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