'No survivors as Congo military plane crashes'
30 Sept 2017 9:03 PM IST
Kinshasa: A military transport plane belonging to the Congolese army crashed near Kinshasa on Saturday, killing "several dozen" people, military and airport sources said.
The Antonov transport plane had just taken off and had "several dozen people" on board, an airport source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The plane went down in Nsele, about 100 km to the east of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the source said.
A local official in the area of the crash said that there were "no survivors".
The plane, which had a Russian crew, was carrying "two vehicles and weapons" and military personnel, a source at the army's headquarters said, also speaking on condition of anonymity.
He said there were "between 20 and 30 people" on board when it took off from Ndolo airport in Kinshasa.
A witness at the crash site said that he had seen the plane "falling" out the sky shortly before 9:00 am but said that there was no sign of any smoke coming from the
aircraft.
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