At least 50 die in the Congo as plane hits houses

Congo fired its transport minister tonight as emergency workers extinguished the last flames from a plane crash which killed at least 50 people, finding still more bodies in the wreckage.

Saleh Kinyongo, spokesman for Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry, said 28 bodies had been retrieved in the capital Kinshasa so far, all of them local residents. Another 22 aboard the plane were presumed dead, he said.