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Paraguayan minister, deputy die in plane crash: Rescuer
Paraguay's agriculture minister and a deputy minister were among four people killed in an airplane crash near the Argentine border, rescuers said Thursday.
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log entry for the Eurocopter 355 NP helicopter, owned by a private company, reported four men were aboard at the time of the crash, reported the Department of Airports coordination center for disaster search and rescue. (The Nation/ANN/File)
Paraguay's agriculture minister and a deputy minister were among four people killed in an airplane crash near the Argentine border, rescuers said Thursday.
The twin-engine light aircraft had taken off from the southern fishing town of Ayolas on Wednesday afternoon but crashed soon afterward, just eight kilometers (4 miles) from the airport.
"There are no survivors," Roque Gonzalez, a member of a search and rescue unit, told AFP.
The dead were identified as agriculture minister Luis Gneiting, deputy livestock minister Vicente Ramirez, civil servant Luis Charotti and pilot Gerardo Lopez.
Gneiting was returning to the capital Asuncion, 300 kilometers away, after visiting his terminally ill mother, who died on Thursday just hours after her son.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.
