Five die in France plane crash

GRENOBLE, France: Five people died Saturday when their private plane crashed a few moments after taking off from the Grenoble airport in southeastern France, local police said.

“There were five passengers. Five people died,” police told AFP. The plane crashed a few moments after taking off from the airport, in the village of Saint-Pierre-de-Bressieux.

It was heading to Morocco and was due to make a stop in Spain, police sources said. The plane was registered in Morocco. The identities of the victims were not immediately available and police were investigating the cause of the crash.

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