Police said 19 passengers have been killed in a plane crash in western Congo and that there are two survivors.
Col Joli Limengo, police chief of Bandundu province where the crash happened on Wednesday, said that 19 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage.
The plane operated by a local airliner was going from central Congo to Bandundu when it crashed. It was due to then continue on to the capital of Kinshasa.
Congo has one of the worst air safety records in the world. The Central African country’s safety regulations are notoriously lax.
Few passable roads traverse Congo after decades of war and corrupt rule, forcing the country’s deeply impoverished people to rely on ill-maintained planes and boats to move around.
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