At least nine people died this Sunday after plane crash of small size in a commercial area of the tourist city of Gramado, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul (sur)according to authorities.
“There are nine deaths confirmed by the Civil Defense (services) and there are no survivors from the plane,” Commissioner Cléber dos Santos Lima, director of the Interior Police Department of the state’s Civil Police, told AFP.
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Authorities did not immediately confirm how many passengers and crew were traveling on the plane, a Piper Cheyenne 400 turboprop, although Civil Defense said earlier that “Preliminarily, the plane was carrying ten people.”
The aircraft crashed on Sunday morning “against the chimney of a building, then against the second floor of a house and then fell on a furniture store,” the Public Security Secretariat of Rio Grande do Sul reported in a note. destruction “They also hit an inn”he added.
At least 15 people were taken to hospital, most for having inhaled smoke from the fire that caused the accident, later controlled by firefighters.
The plane had taken off from the municipality of Canela, another tourist destination in Rio Grande do Sul.
“Unfortunately, initial information indicates that the occupants of the plane did not survive,” said the state governor, Eduardo Leite, on his X account.
“I am accompanying the sad episode together with the State security forces,” he added.
I am following the sad episode of an aircraft crash in Gramado with the State security forces. We have all the staff from the municipality and Canela mobilized to respond to the incident. I am also traveling to monitor the operation on site.
Not moment,…
— Eduardo Leite (@EduardoLeite_) December 22, 2024
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Gramado is a popular tourist city in Brazil, with important influx of visitors in the Christmas time.
This is the second accident with several fatalities this weekend in Brazil, after 41 people died on Saturday in a bus accident in Minas Gerais (southeast).
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva described the bus tragedy as “terrible,” which occurred after the load of a truck traveling in the opposite direction detached from the body and hit the vehicle with passengers.
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