China orders investigation after military plane crashes
AP
Malaysia Star
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Beijing (China):
The weekend crash of a military transport plane in eastern China killed all 40 people aboard and prompted President Hu Jintao to order an investigation into its cause, the government's Xinhua News Agency reported.
The Xinhua report late Sunday was the first official confirmation of the death toll from Saturday afternoon's crash. Villagers near the crash site in Anhui province described a gruesome scene, with bodies and body parts strewn across a mountain slope where the plane went down.
Immediately after learning of the crash, Hu, who heads the Communist Party commission that oversees the military, ordered an investigation team led by a senior general to the crash site to determine the cause, Xinhua said, citing unidentified sources from China's Air Force.
No other details about the victims or the flight have been released.
The Xinhua report on the death toll was released more than 30 hours after the crash. Newspapers on Monday carried brief, identical Xinhua dispatches about Hu sending condolences to families of the victims - an indication that the government was keeping a tight rein on media, all of which is state controlled.
June 05, 2006
AP
Malaysia Star
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Beijing (China):
The weekend crash of a military transport plane in eastern China killed all 40 people aboard and prompted President Hu Jintao to order an investigation into its cause, the government's Xinhua News Agency reported.
The Xinhua report late Sunday was the first official confirmation of the death toll from Saturday afternoon's crash. Villagers near the crash site in Anhui province described a gruesome scene, with bodies and body parts strewn across a mountain slope where the plane went down.
Immediately after learning of the crash, Hu, who heads the Communist Party commission that oversees the military, ordered an investigation team led by a senior general to the crash site to determine the cause, Xinhua said, citing unidentified sources from China's Air Force.
No other details about the victims or the flight have been released.
The Xinhua report on the death toll was released more than 30 hours after the crash. Newspapers on Monday carried brief, identical Xinhua dispatches about Hu sending condolences to families of the victims - an indication that the government was keeping a tight rein on media, all of which is state controlled.
June 05, 2006