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Choppers reach Everest to rescue avalanche victims

Published: 26 Apr 2015 - 01:29 pm | Last Updated: 14 Jan 2022 - 04:47 pm

 


Mount Everest, Nepal--Several helicopters landed at Mount Everest base camp on Sunday to rescue victims of an avalanche that has killed at least 14 people, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.
"People being stretchered out as choppers land - half a dozen this morning," the agency's Nepal bureau chief Ammu Kannampilly said in a text message. "Weather clear, some snowfall."

AFP