(ANSA) - RANGON, June 10 - A military plane crashed today near the city of Mandalay, central Burma, due to bad weather. The spokesman for the junta in power in the country said so.
The plane, carrying six crew members and eight passengers, left the capital Naypyidaw this morning for Pyin Oo Lwin. About 400 meters from a factory near the city airport, contact with the aircraft was lost, said the spokesman of the junta, Zaw Min Tun, specifying that two passengers were rescued but without providing other details on the victims.
A senior police officer told FrancePresse that at least seven people, including two senior monks, died in the accident. "Another woman is in critical conditions",he said asking to remain anonymous.
This in Burma is the monsoon period that even in the past caused problems for flights. In 2017, a military aircraft crashed in the Andaman Sea: all 122 people on board died. Two years earlier, an Air Bagan passenger plane went off the runway due to bad weather and the fort: a passenger and a person on the ground were killed. (HANDLE).