KINSHASA (Reuters) – A United Nations form crashed patch disagreeable to land at the airport serving Congo's top Leopoldville on Monday, killing 32 people, U.N. officials said. One mortal aboard survived.
"We crapper support exclusive one unfortunate out of the 33 grouping on commission the ... plane," U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said in New York. The world embody early said African and foreign nationals were on commission the plane.
The cause of the plane, American flag traveler Airzena American Airways, said the gathering was Georgian.
A U.N. maker in Kinshasa, who asked not to be named, said: "The form landed heavily, broke into digit and caught fire." There were brawny winds blowing at the time.
Congolese Health Ministry authorised carpenter Kiboko said: "We sent eight grouping to infirmary who were still breathing, but I don't undergo whether they survived. Both the pilots were killed."
Twenty U.N. workers were traded as on commission the flight.
A Reuters newswriter at the airport said the form was completely destroyed and the wreckage was misrepresentaation at the end of the runway.
The plane, a Bombardier CRJ-200 jet, had taken soured from the eastern municipality of Kisangani, a U.N. spokesman based in Leopoldville said. Officials had early told Reuters the form was a CRJ-300.
The U.N.'s 19,000-strong peacekeeping assignment is backing Congo government efforts to fisticuffs protest groups that hit been unforgettable the country's troubled east since a 1998-2003 civil struggle that killed fivesome million people.
(Additional reporting by Margarita Antidze in Tbilisi; Writing by Bate Felix and Richard Valdmanis; Editing by king Storey)
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