Buenos Aires : Six people aboard a military plane that crashed in Bolivia on Sunday are dead, according to the Bolivian Defence Ministry.
Those killed include four members of the military and two civilians, it said.
The Cessna FAB-409 aircraft had departed on Sunday morning from the airport of El Alto, which lies adjacent to the capital La Paz.
It had been carrying out “support for civilian measures” en route to the city of Cochabamba, according to the ministry.
A search operation was launched after radio contact with the plane was lost, and the crashed aircraft was found in the Cerro Sayari area in the department of Cochabamba, it said.
