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Swedish plane crash kills eight skydivers and pilot
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Nine people have been killed after a plane carrying skydivers crashed near the runway at Orebro airport in Sweden.
A small aircraft with one pilot carrying eight parachuters crashed at 7.23 p.m. local time on Thursday shortly after takeoff and then caught fire, killing everyone on board "in a very severe accident," Erik Hiding of Orebro police told CNN. "There were no lives to save" when the rescue service arrived at the accident site, fire chief Per-Ove Staberyd told reporters on Friday.More Related News

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