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| DR Congo plane crash in Goma kills at least 30 | |
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| A plane has crashed in Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 30 passengers, officials say. | |
| The plane came down in the city centre, shortly before it was due to land in bad weather at Goma airport, officials said. | |
| "We estimate there could be between 30 and 50 deaths," Julien Paluku, governor of North Kivu province which has Goma as its capital, told AFP news agency. | |
| DR Congo has a poor air safety record. | |
| 'Field of disasters' | |
| Its airlines have been banned by the European Union from flying into EU airspace. | |
| Two years ago, 74 people were killed in a crash at the airport in the central city of Kisangani. | |
| Last year, President Joseph Kabila's personal adviser, Augustin Katumba, was killed in a crash in the city of Bukavu. | |
| In the latest accident, the aircraft, a Fokker 50 owned by local company CAA, was flying in from the central mining town of Lodja when it came down in heavy rainfall, AFP reports. | |
| The plane crashed in the centre of Goma, near the electoral commission's building, but it did not hit any people on the ground, the city's mayor Naasson Kubuya told the Associated Press (AP) news agency. | |
| He said 36 passengers had been killed, AP reports. | |
| "The pilot managed to avoid houses. It's a horrifying accident,'' Mr Kubuya is quoted as saying. | |
| "The city of Goma has become a field of disasters. We sympathize with the families of the deceased.'' |