#OMG: Mexicans died while visiting Everest by helicopter: It was a family and they will be repatriated

The Mexican embassy in India confirmed on Tuesday that five Mexicans and a Nepalese woman died in a helicopter accident in the district of Solukhumbu, in the province of Koshi, in Nepal. It was the Nepalese embassy, who confirmed in a statement shared on Twitter, that all the people who were traveling in the helicopter, lost their lives in the incident, The Manang Air helicopter left the Nepalese district of Solukhumbu bound for the capital, Kathmandu, at 10:05 am local time (12:20 a.m. ET), according to the Civil Aviation Authority in Nepal, however, the aircraft reportedly lost contact less than ten minutes after takeoff. The exact cause of the accident is still unknown.

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