Around the World: D.R. Congo

Aid plane crashes, 17 dead

A humanitarian plane carrying 17 passengers and crew that went missing in east Democratic Republic of the Congo has crashed into a mountain and there is no sign of survivors, the contracting air company said yesterday.

Rescuers spotted the wreckage early yesterday of the 19-seat Beechcraft aircraft, contracted by Air Serv International, around 15 km northwest of the town of Bukavu, on Congo's eastern border with Rwanda.