Seven die in Spain air crash

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Published : 11:23, Aug 26, 2019 | Updated : 11:28, Aug 26, 2019

A man sprays water at wreckage on fire after a collision between a helicopter and a light plane that killed at least seven people on the Spanish island of Mallorca August 25, 2019. Diario de Mallorca/Grupo Editorial Iberico/Handout via REUTERSSeven people, including two minors, were killed on Sunday in a collision between a helicopter and a light plane on the Spanish island of Mallorca, the regional government said.
Five people were on board the helicopter, two of them minors, and they were all likely Germans, the Balearic Islands government said on Twitter. Two adult Spaniards were in the small plane. All the people on board the two aircraft were killed.
The cause of the accident was not yet known. Emergency services were notified of the crash at 1:35pm time in the municipality of Inca.
"My solidarity and love for the families of the victims that lost their lives in this tragic accident," Spanish acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tweeted.

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