10 killed as small plane crashes in Brazilian town popular with tourists

Police carry out an investigation by houses that were hit by a plane in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil (Mateus Bruxel, Agencia RBS/AP)

A small plane has crashed in a Brazilian town that is popular with tourists, killing all 10 passengers and crew on board and injuring more than a dozen people on the ground, Brazil’s Civil Defence Agency said.

The agency in a post on X said the plane hit the chimney of a home and then the second floor of a building before crashing into a mobile phone shop in a largely residential neighbourhood of Gramado.