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A civilian aircraft crashed on Sunday near the eastern French town of Tomblaine, authorities said, with local media reporting possible fatalities. Police urged people to "strictly avoid" the area around the airport in Tomblaine, while local media said that the aircraft, reportedly carrying a group of people on a skydiving trip, had crashed. pau/ekf/rh

Eleven people, including a pilot and 10 parachutists, were killed when a small plane crashed in the northeastern French town of Tomblaine on Sunday, narrowly missing nearby homes as their families watched, officials and a witness said. The aircraft, used by a parachuting school and carrying five trainee parachutists and five instructors, went down shortly after take-off from Nancy-Essey airport, officials said. Some of the trainees' family members were at the small regional airport and witnessed the crash, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told reporters.

All 11 people, including five instructors, five students and the pilot, were killed, authorities said. | World News

A skydiving plane crashed in northeastern France on Sunday, killing all 11 people on board in one of the country's deadliest light aircraft accidents, authoriti

A skydiving training aircraft crashed near France's Tomblaine, killing all 11 people on board. Authorities are investigating the cause.

The scorching conditions have killed around 1,000 people in France, sparked wildfires across Germany, damaged roads and railway networks, and pushed emergency services to their limits, prompting fresh warnings.

The skydiving plane crashed near the city of Nancy in France at 11 am (local time).

Most of the fatalities involved older people and that it expected the mortality rate to rise as more information became available about deaths in residential care and homes.

BERLIN: France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave, the country's public health agency said Sunday, as n