Two Bangladeshis among 32 dead in Congo air crash

Two Bangladeshi army men have been killed in a United Nations (UN) plane crash at the main airport of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in its capital, report agencies. The deceased were identified as Major KM Ziaul Haque and Corporal (clerk) Mohammad Yunus Mia. Only one person survived among the 33 UN personnel and crew members aboard a plane that crashed in Congo on Monday, UN officials said. UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy told reporters he had no detailed information about the sole survivor, who he said was hospitalized after the crash in the Congolese city of Kinshasa. Le Roy said the cause of the crash had not been determined, but investigators were looking at the possibility that windy weather had caused the plane to miss the airstrip. The craft came down next to the air strip and broke up upon landing, he said. The UN peacekeeping mission in New York described the craft as a small passenger plane and said it was ferrying a mix of mostly UN personnel, including Continued to page 7 Col. 8