A military transport plane belonging to the Congolese Army crashed near Kinshasa on Saturday, killing “several dozen” people, military and airport sources told AFP.
The Antonov transport plane had just taken off and had “several dozen people” on board, an airport source told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The plane went down in Nsele, about 100 kms to the east of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the source said.
A local official in the area of the crash told AFP there were “no survivors”.