At least nine people They died this Sunday after the crash of a small plane in a commercial area from the tourist city of Gramado, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul (south), the authorities reported. “There is nine dead confirmed by the Civil Defense (services) and there are no survivors of the plane,” said the commissioner Cléber dos Santos Limadirector of the Interior Police Department of the state’s Civil Police.
Authorities have not confirmed at this time how many passengers and crew were traveling on the plane, a Piper Cheyenne 400 turboprop, although Civil Defense said earlier that “preliminarily, the plane was carrying ten people“. The aircraft crashed on Sunday morning “into the fireplace of a building, then against the second floor from a house and then fell on a furniture store“, reported the Public Security Secretariat of Rio Grande do Sul in a note. The damage “also affected an inn,” it added. At least 15 people were taken to the hospital, most for having inhaled smoke from the fire that caused the accident. , then controlled by firefighters.
The plane had taken off from the municipality of Canela, another tourist destination in Rio Grande do Sul. “Unfortunately, initial information indicates that the occupants of the plane did not survive,” said the state governor, Eduardo Leiteon his X account. “I am accompanying the sad episode with the State security forces,” he added. Gramado is a popular tourist city in Brazil, with a significant influx of visitors at Christmas time.
This is the second accident with several fatalities this weekend in Brazil, after 41 personas died on Saturday in a bus accident in Minas Gerais (southeast). President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva described as “terrible” the bus tragedy, which occurred after the load of a truck traveling in the opposite direction detached from the body and hit the vehicle with passengers.
