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An aircraft has reportedly crashed into the Mekong river in Laos, killing 39 people. An aircraft has crashed into the Mekong river in Laos, killing 39 people.
A Lao Airlines plane on an internal flight from the capital, Vientiane, to the south of the country crashed into the Mekong in the late afternoon on Wednesday, China's Xinhua state news agency said, citing the airline. A Lao Airlines official said the plane had crashed at about 4pm local time near Pakse, Champasak province, which is on the borders of both Thailand and Cambodia.
A television station in neighbouring Thailand said 39 people had been killed. Airline and government officials in Laos were not immediately available for comment. Thai television showed a photograph of the ATR 72 turboprop plane partly submerged in shallow water on a stretch of the Mekong, the tail severed. Another television channel showed what appeared to be several bodies on the bank of the river.
A television station in neighbouring Thailand said 39 people had been killed.
Lao Airlines is the national carrier of the communist state and has operated since 1976. Its aircraft carried 658,000 passengers last year and it has a fleet of just 14 planes, mostly propeller-driven.
It operates on seven domestic routes and has international flights to China, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore.
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