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Plane Crash in Brazil Kills 5

A single-engine Embraer-720C plane crashed into a house in Balsas, Maranhao state, in northeastern Brazil, at about 6:19 a.m. on August 3.

The plane was transporting an elderly sick lady and her relatives to a hospital when it crashed.

All five people aboard the plane were killed. The victims included the pilot, Delano Martins Coelho, 36, his fiancée and nurse, Lorena Alves de Lima, 22, an 87 year old sick lady Maria de Jesus Cruz e Silva who was being shifted from a hospital in Balsas to another in Piaui, her daughter, Francisca Pereira e Silva and one of her grandsons, Alan Patrick Silva Setulvedo.

The house hit by the plane was occupied by three people. However, none of them was hurt.

The cause of the crash is not yet known.

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