Nepal tourism minister among seven killed in chopper crash

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KATHMANDU: Nepal’s tourism minister Rabindra Adhikari was among seven people killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed in the country’s hilly east, officials said.Rescue workers retrieved the bodies of Adhikari, 49, the pilot and five other passengers from a hillside in Taplejung district where the Air Dynasty chopper went down. "The respected minister’s body has been identified," home affairs ministry spokesman Ram Krishna Subedi said in a press conference. The minister’s personal bodyguard has been identified as among the dead. The owner of the helicopter company was also aboard but his body has not been formally identified.

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