28 Die When Plane Crashes Near Capital
From Times Wire Reports
A cargo plane slammed into a shantytown outside Luanda, the Angolan capital, killing at least 28 people and demolishing five houses. Rescue teams retrieved the bodies of the four Russian crew members and seven passengers, believed to be Angolans, as well as of 17 people on the ground. State radio said that it was not known who had chartered the aircraft but that it was not the government or the United Nations.
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