Twelve killed in Myanmar military plane crash

Myanmar military plane crash

Twelve people were killed when a Myanmar military plane crashed in a central region of the country Thursday, a spokesman for the junta said. The plane, which was carrying six crew and eight passengers, crashed near the city of Pyin Oo Lwin, the spokesperson said in a statement to journalists, blaming the cause on ‘bad weather’. ‘It lost communications when it was 400 metres (1,300 feet) away from a steel factory near the airport,’ Zaw Min Tun said in a statement. A senior monk was among those on board, the statement said, adding a team had been able to rescue a boy and a sergeant, who had been sent to a nearby military hospital.