The death toll from a plane crash in Chile's capital of Santiago Wednesday rose to 11 after the bodies of three more victims were found under the aircraft's fuselage.
The police aircraft crashed Wednesday in a populous region in Santiago, with six people aboard the Cessna Centurion 210 aircraft all killed immediately and five others died in the crash zone.
The newly-found victims were identified as Ramona del Rosario Espinoza, 72, and Cecilia Borkosky Plaza, 54, who were exercising at the Penalolen Municipal Stadium, while the third woman has not been identified yet.
About 25 people were injured, seven of them seriously and two others with serious burns facing extreme risk.
A motor failure prompted the pilot to a force landing when the Carabineers Air Club's aircraft was heading towards Tobalaba airport, in southeast of Santiago.
According to airport sources, the plane took off at 9:45 local time (1245 GMT) for a training flight in an authorized zone, but the control tower lost touch with the plane three minutes after its takeoff.
Source: Xinhua
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