At least five of the six passengers in a helicopter, in which they were traveling five mexican touristsdied this Tuesday after crashing in the region of Everest in Nepal. This is how the Prime Minister of the Asian country regretted it, after the authorities lost contact this morning with the device.

Specifically, five passengers died and one is still missing after the helicopter accident, the president of the Himalayan country said on Twitter.Pushpa Kamal Dahal, reporting the tragic accident.

The accident took place in the northern district of Solukhumbu, where Mount Everest is located. Nepal, where plane crashes happen frequently It has been the subject of repeated international sanctions for the lack of controls. For this reason, the European Union (EU) has banned Nepali airlines from accessing its territory since 2013.

Other plane crashes in Nepal

It is not the first accident that has taken place in Nepal since in February 2019 Seven people died after a helicopter with seven passengers on board crashed, including the Nepali Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation, Rabindra Adhikari.

The accident took place just months after another helicopter from the Altitude Air company crashed in a jungle area in the Gorkha district of northern Nepal, killing six people, including the pilot, while a passenger survived.

The worst plane crash in recent years in Nepal occurred in January 2023, when a flight of Yeti Airlines crashed with 72 passengers leaving no survivors, an accident attributed by authorities to human error.