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Six people lost their lives in a plane crash in northeast Bolivia on Saturday, including four Spaniards who were repatriated while the borders were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, reports AFP.
“While carrying out a humanitarian aid operation, the plane suffered an accident while transporting Spanish citizens for repatriation,” the military aviation said in a statement, AFP reports, according to Agerpres.
The army was to fly from Trinidad to the city of Santa Cruz, in central Bolivia, where the four passengers who died, three Spaniards and a Bolivian woman with dual Spanish nationality, intended to take a humanitarian flight to Spain, sources said military. .
The two Bolivian pilots also lost their lives in the accident that occurred shortly after the military twin-engine Beechcraft Baron B-55 took off from the Trinidad airport, in a place called Laguna Suárez, 10 kilometers from the city. .
The plane was carrying humanitarian food aid, as well as coronavirus tests to analyze in a laboratory in Santa Cruz.
An investigation has been launched to determine the causes of the accident.
