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19.01.06, 22:50
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A Slovak AN-24 military aircraft, bound from Kosovo
to Slovakia, crashed in eastern Hungary on Thursday, a Hungarian government
spokesman said.
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"This aircraft was an AN-24 military aircraft flying from Pristina to Kosice
in Slovakia and it crashed in Telkibanya, near the Slovak border around 2030
(1930 GMT)," Miklos Merenyi, a spokesman for Hungary's Economy Ministry,
which controls air traffic, told Reuters.
Telkibanya is 250 km (150 miles) from the Hungarian capital Budapest
"According to unconfirmed information, 48 people were on board," Merenyi
added.
The Hungarian Disaster Management Agency said that there was as yet no word
on the number of casualties but the aircraft had caught fire.
"What we know is there were more than 40 people on board, that the aircraft
crashed in an uninhabited area," said agency spokesman Tibor Dobson.
"There are firefighters and ambulance crews on the scene, they are trying to
put out the fire," he added.
The Slovak authorities declined to comment until they had more information.
Hungarian state news agency MTI said the area in which the aircraft crashed
was highly forested, making rescue operations difficult.
