DR Congo president's aide killed in plane crash: official
Baku, February 13 (AZERTAC). A close aide to DR Congo President Joseph Kabila was killed and the country's finance minister seriously injured in a plane crash in the east of the country, the president's office said.
Two American crew members also died, as well as two people crushed by the plane as it came down at Bukavu airport. The statement identified Kabila's aide as Augustin Katumba Mwanke, considered a key member of Kabila's entourage, who had the ear of the president.
"The toll is three dead among those on board the plane: Katumba Mwanke, the American pilot and copilot," Interior Minister Katumba Mwanke told reporters.
"There were also two farmers, whose bodies were found under the plane," he added. The plane was carrying nine people, including the crew, he said. Mwanke and the pilot had "died on the spot," a source at the presidency said.
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