A cargo plane carrying
presidential staff has crashed in eastern Congo and all eight passengers and
crew are feared dead.
Debris of the plane has been
found, but the people aboard are still missing, said adviser Vidiye Tshimanga,
in a chat with Reuters on Friday.
Congo Civil Aviation Authority,
in a statement, said the plane, carrying President Felix Tshisekedi’s driver, a
logistics manager and some soldiers, was headed from Goma to the capital
Kinshasa and went off radar on Thursday afternoon.
The Russian Embassy in Democratic
Republic of Congo said on its Facebook page that preliminary information
indicated that Russians were among the crew members on the Antonov jet.
Hundreds of Tshisekedi supporters
hitting the streets of Kinshasa after the news broke, fearing that the plane
crash had been some kind of failed coup attempt against Tshisekedi.
The president took over from
long-standing former President Joseph Kabila this year.
Kabila has offered his
condolences to Tshisekedi and all the victims.
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