The plane was carrying senior military personnel and monks when it crashed close to a steel plant near Pyin Oo Lwin, a hill town in the Mandalay region.
File picture of a military passenger plane that crashed crashed in a field near the airport in the capital of Naypyidaw on Feb 10, 2016. Myanmar has long had a poor air safety record. - AFP
YANGON (Reuters): A military plane crashed on Thursday (June 10) near Myanmar s second-biggest city of Mandalay, killing 12 people, the city s fire service said in a post on social media.
The plane was flying from the capital Naypyidaw to the town of Pyin Oo Lwin and was coming in to land when it crashed about 300 metres (984 ft) from a steel plant, the military-owned Myawaddy television station reported.
The plane was carrying six military personnel and also monks who were due to attend a ceremony at a Buddhist monastery, other media reports said.
At least 12 people have died after a military aircraft crashed in Myanmar, according to a fire brigade spokesperson on Thursday.The accident occurred near the central city of Mandalay, the spokesperson told dpa news agency. The weather .