20 injured as plane skids off runway

A passenger plane with about 100 people on board skidded off the end of an airport runway while landing in heavy rain on Indonesia’s remote Papua province today, injuring about 20 people.

The Boeing 737, operated by Merpati Nusantara Airline, was landing at Manokwari airport when it slid into a small canal at the end of the runway, police official Didi Zaenal said. He said the plane had flown in from the nearby city of Sorong.