Abidjan: Four people died in a small plane crashed in western Ivory Coast on Monday, while three others on board on the plane received injuries, a hospital source said.
According to Reuter news agency, a senior official at a hospital in Daloa, a western town in the cocoa belt where the crash took place, said he received four corpses after the crash. One was Ivorian and three were white foreigners but they had not been identified, he said.
“We received the bodies around 5 p.m. (1700 GMT), we received the bodies of three people who had been killed in this plane crash. A survivor who was brought to us later died,” he said.
The plane crashed during takeoff for Abidjan.
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