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MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte flew to Zamboanga City on Monday to visit soldiers who were injured in a military plane crash that killed 50, as an investigation was launched into the incident.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said it had retrieved the remains of 47 troops who died in Sunday’s crash, with the identification process underway, while 49 survivors had been moved to hospitals in Sulu and Zamboanga City for further treatment.
The crash also killed three civilians and injured four on the ground, taking the death toll to 50.
“All passengers, pilots and crew were retrieved. Meanwhile, the search for the black box of the crashed C-130 is still ongoing,” the AFP told reporters.
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06 Jul 2021, 02:18 GMT+10
MANILA The death toll from a military plane crash in the southern Philippines has risen to 52 as two more critically injured soldiers died in the hospital, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said in an updated report Monday. All 96 passengers and crew in the C-130H aircraft that crashed upon landing before noon Sunday on Jolo island in Sulu province have been accounted for, the Department of National Defense said, adding that 49 soldiers died and 47 others injured. (Philippines-Plane Crash-Toll) - - - - LAGOS A group of unidentified gunmen on Monday raided a secondary school in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria, abducting an unspecified number of students, according to a police spokesperson.
Deadly impact: Military personnel inspecting the wreckage of the military plane in Jolo town, Sulu province, in Mindanao. AFP
Authorities ordered an investigation into the crash of an Air Force plane that overshot a runway killing 47 soldiers on board, three civilians on the ground and injuring dozens.
Some passengers on the Lockheed C-130 jumped free seconds before the plane crashed on Sunday and burst into flames, officials cited witnesses as saying.
The aircraft, carrying recently graduated troops bound for counter-insurgency operations, had been trying to land at Jolo airport in southern Sulu province.
All 96 passengers on board had been accounted for, with 49 military personnel injured as well as four civilians on the ground, military spokesman Maj Gen Edgard Arevalo said.
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