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Fifty-three feared dead in Congo air crash - airline


    KINSHASA (Reuters) - Fifty-three people are believed dead after a Boeing 727 plane carrying 112 on board crashed as it tried to land in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, an airline official said.

    "Fifty-three dead, that is the last figure I have," Stavros Papaioannou, chief executive of the Congolese Hewa Bora airline, told Reuters by telephone, while cautioning that the toll was likely to be revised.

    (Reporting by Jonny Hogg; writing by Mark John)