Sao Paulo:
At least nine people were killed when a small plane crashed in Gramado, southern Brazil, on Sunday morning, authorities said, hitting a commercial area of the tourist city.
The plane crashed into the chimney of a building, hit the second floor of a house and then “fell on a furniture store,” Rio Grande do Sul’s State Security Secretariat said in a statement.
An inn was also damaged, it added.
“Nine deaths have been confirmed by civil protection, and there are no survivors from the plane,” Cleber dos Santos Lima, director of the internal police of the Civil State Police, told AFP.
Authorities have not yet confirmed how many passengers and crew were traveling on the plane, a Piper Cheyenne 400 turboprop, but previously said they believed there were 10 people on board.
At least 15 people were taken to hospital, most for smoke inhalation from the fire caused by the crash.
The plane had taken off from the municipality of Canela, another tourist town in Rio Grande do Sul.
Gramado is a popular tourist town in Brazil, with a significant influx of visitors during the Christmas period.
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