24 die in Brazilian air crash

BRAZILIAN authorities yesterday recovered the bodies of 24 people who were killed when their small plane crashed in an Amazon jungle river.

24 die in Brazilian air crash

The dead were found inside the twin turboprop plane, which went down about 80km from the jungle city of Manaus, firefighter Jair Ruas Braga said.

Seven children were killed, along with nine women and eight men. A nine-year-old child was among four people who survived the Saturday crash.

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