U.N. Air Crash Site in Angola Found
An international rescue team reached the crash site Friday of a U.N. plane that went down two weeks ago in central Angola. One journalist reported seeing burned and mangled bodies among the wreckage.
The plane was carrying 14 people when it crashed Dec. 26.
U.N. spokesman Hamadoun Toure said he expects an update soon from the investigation team, but he could not say when that information would be released.
Toure said rebel forces had also withdrawn from another area in the central highlands where a second U.N. plane crashed Jan. 2.
After the second crash, the United Nations suspended all its flights in this vast southwest African nation where a civil war resumed last month between the government and rebels.
The U.N. believes that the planes came under fire over the war zone. The government says the rebels are holding survivors from the first crash, but the insurgents deny that claim.
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