SAO PAULO:
Not less than 9 individuals died when a small aircraft crashed on Sunday morning in Gramado, in southern Brazil, authorities mentioned, slamming right into a industrial space of the vacationer metropolis.
The plane crashed into the chimney of a constructing, struck the second flooring of a home after which “fell on a furnishings retailer,” the Rio Grande do Sul state safety secretariat mentioned in a press release. An inn was additionally broken, it added.
“There are 9 deaths confirmed by the civil protection, and there aren’t any survivors of the aircraft,” Cleber dos Santos Lima, director of the Inside Police Division of the state civil police, instructed AFP.
Authorities haven’t but confirmed what number of passengers and crew had been touring on the aircraft, a Piper Cheyenne 400 turboprop, however earlier mentioned they thought it was carrying 10 individuals.
Not less than 15 individuals had been taken to the hospital, most for smoke inhalation from the hearth brought on by the crash.
The aircraft had taken off from the municipality of Canela, one other vacationer city in Rio Grande do Sul.