The Saurya Airlines plane was operating a test flight from the capital, Kathmandu, to the tourist hub of Pokhara. Nepal’s military said that rescue work is ongoing.

A plane crash in Nepal killed all 18 passengers on board on Wednesday and left the pilot injured, police said.

The Saurya Airlines plane crashed during take-off on a test flight from Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu to Pokhara.

“Eighteen bodies have been recovered, including one foreigner,” police spokesperson Dan Bahadur Karki told the AFP news agency.

“We are in the process of taking them for post-mortem.”