Ten members of a household died early Sunday when their small aircraft slammed right into a business district within the metropolis of Gramado in southern Brazil, civil protection authorities stated.
Officers had earlier put the dying toll at 9.
The aircraft, a Piper Cheyenne 400 turboprop, was being flown by a businessman named Luiz Claudio Salgueiro Galeazzi, police confirmed to AFP, and the passengers have been all members of the family of his.
The plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the close by metropolis of Canela, putting the chimney of a constructing after which a home earlier than falling onto a furnishings retailer, the Rio Grande do Sul state safety secretariat stated in an announcement.
An inn was additionally broken, it added.
“There aren’t any survivors of the aircraft,” Cleber dos Santos Lima of the state civil police advised AFP.
No less than 17 folks have been injured on the bottom, two of them significantly, whereas a number of others have been handled for smoke inhalation.
The reason for the accident is beneath investigation.
Gramado is a well-liked vacationer metropolis in Brazil, with a major inflow of tourists throughout the Christmas season.
Final August, Brazil suffered its worst air tragedy in 17 years, when a twin-engine aircraft with 62 folks aboard crashed within the metropolis of Vinhedo in Sao Paulo state. There have been no survivors.
And in one of many nation’s worst site visitors accidents in years, 41 folks died in a bus crash Saturday within the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.
AFP
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