Nepal plane crash with 72 onboard leaves at least 68 dead

Foreign nationals from Australia, France, Ireland and India among the passengers onboard

At least 68 people were confirmed dead and hope faded for any survivors after a plane with 72 onboard crashed in Nepal, the Himalayan country's deadliest aviation disaster in three decades.

Thirty-one [bodies] have been taken to hospitals," said police official, AK Chhetri, adding that another 36 were still in the 300-metre gorge the aircraft plunged into at the site in Pokhara in central Nepal.