Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority on Sunday confirmed that 29 passengers, on board the ATR-72 Yeti Airlines flight which crashed somewhere between the old airport of Pokhara region and the Pokhara International Airport, were confirmed dead.
Ahead of the inauguration of Nepal's new Pokhara airport, in a surprise announcement on Saturday, the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu tweeted, "This (Pokhara airport) is the flagship project of the China-Nepal Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation."
Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Sunday inaugurated the country's third international airport, built in the backdrop of the Annapurna Mountain Range with Chinese loans and donations.
Kathmandu [Nepal], March 26 (ANI): Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the second day of his Nepal visit handed over the Chinese-built Pokhara Regional International Airport to Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba.