Havana: A Cuban passenger plane has crashed in the centre of the country, killing all 68 people on board, including seven crew and 28 foreigners, Cuban state-run news media said early on Friday.
A statement by the Cuban Civil Aeronautics Institute (IACC) late Thursday confirmed an ATR-72-212 aircraft of Cuba's Aerocaribbean SA airlines, en route from Santiago de Cuba to Havana, came down in the central region of Guasimal in the province of Sancti Spiritus.
The state-run news website cubadebate.cu said early Friday that authorities found no survivors when they reached the wreckage.
Image: Flames emerge from the wreckage of a Cuban airliner as Police officers and residents look on after it crashed near the village of Guasimal in Santi Spiritus province, Cuba on Nov. 4, 2010.
Text: IANS
Images: AP
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