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Zaire air crash crew arrested

Thursday 11 January 1996 00:02 GMT
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Zaire air crash crew arrested

Kinshasa - Officials said yesterday that they had found the flight recorder from a cargo plane which ploughed into a teeming Zairean market. The Russian crew of the Antonov which crashed into the central market of the capital, Kinshasa, on Monday were formally arrested after being held in police custody. An aid group put the death toll from the crash at more than 350. Reuter

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