No fewer than five people, including four members of the same family, were killed in a tourist plane crash in the French Alps on Saturday, Africa Today News, New York.
The plane crash happened in the afternoon shortly after take-off from the Versoud airfield near Grenoble in southeast France, for what should have been a half-hour flight.
Eye-witnesses to the crash tipped off the emergency services, who found the bodies of four adults and a child inside the plane’s burnt-out wreckage.
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Around 60 firefighters were deployed to the site to put out the fire.
Grenoble prosecutors have ordered an investigation into what happened, said regional officials.
Meanwhile, former Rwandan official by name, Laurent Bucyibaruta has gone on for trial in France for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide where more than 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, were killed by Hutu militias.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that Mr Bucyibaruta is one of the most senior figures to face court in France, where activists have long campaigned for him to stand trial for his past actions.
The 78-year-old man is standing trial on charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, and complicity in crimes against humanity.
The suspect was brought to the courtroom in a wheelchair as he is suffering from ill-health.
Mr Bucyibaruta is accused of attending and participating in several security meetings when the killings were allegedly planned.
He is accused of orchestrating the killing of thousands of people in the southern province of Gikongoro. He denies the charges.