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PLANE HORROR
NINE people have been killed after a plane carrying sky divers crashed in Sweden.
Paramedics rushed to the scene of the incident at Örebro Airport at around 7.20pm on Thursday.
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And just hours later, Swedish police confirmed nine passengers had been killed.
They said: "A total of nine people died in the accident."
Officers said the plane was carrying nine people, including a pilot and eight parachutists.
Emil Gustavsson, rescue leader at the Joint Rescue Co-Ordination Centre, told local TT news agency: "It is a sky diver plane that has crashed after takeoff."
Local media said the plane caught fire after crashing, but the blaze was quickly extinguished.
Emergency services - including ten ambulances - rushed to the scene, according to reports.
Rescue services located the aircraft alongside one of the runways, Carl-Johan Linde, spokesman for the Swedish Maritime Authority said.
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The cause of the accident is not yet known.
Örebro is the sixth-largest city in Sweden, with about 124,000 inhabitants.
Sky diving courses regularly take place in the city during the summer months - with a popular parachute club based in Örebro.
The city's airport is the fourth-largest cargo airport in Sweden.
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Horrified eyewitnesses told how they heard a loud "bang" before the plane plunged into a river outside Umea during a skydiving trip.
Authorities said the passengers were skydivers and some witnesses told Swedish media they saw parachutists trying to jump off the plane just before the crash.
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