Forty people died and more than 100 were injured in a passenger-jet crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) city of Goma on Tuesday, the provincial governor said on Wednesday.
”The toll from this accident is now 40 dead and 111 injured,” the governor of Nord-Kivu, Julien Paluku, said after visiting hospitals and clinics where the injured were taken for treatment in Goma.
Paluku added that the black box from the DC-9 plane had been recovered at the crash site in Goma’s Birere district, where many casualties were sustained on the ground as the plane ploughed into a busy market and went up in flames.
The previous provisional toll given by medical sources was 37 dead and more than 100 injured. The plane appeared to have crashed after going through water on the runway, then developing mechanical problems, aviation sources said. — AFP
