Nepal today ordered an investigation into a helicopter crash that killed 24 people including a Cabinet minister and several top international conservationists in the Himalayan nation’s worst helicopter accident.

Rescuers in Nepal said there were no survivors in the wreckage of a helicopter found days after it disappeared while carrying the forestry minister and 23 other people, including foreign officials, aid workers and journalists.

A Nepalese army rescue helicopter today spotted the wreckage of a helicopter that disappeared while carrying the forestry minister and 23 other people, including foreign officials, aid workers and journalists.