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Aircraft crash in Congo: death toll might be much lower than previously announced (VIDEO)

Goma, DR of Congo - But there is still a lot of uncertainty about the number of persons who died in the accident

The death toll of the air accident which, in late afternoon of Monday 4 March 2013, involved a Fokker F-50 aircraft operated by Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation near Goma Airport, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, might be really lower than initially announced and feared. In Monday's evening both the Mayor of Goma and the Governor of of North Kivu province declared that the casualties were at least...

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