Staff working for a Tearfund partner in the Democratic Republic of Congo are treating dozens of people injured after a plane crash.
At least 40 died in the incident on Tuesday at Goma airport in the east of the country, when a Hewa Bora Airlines DC-9 skidded off the runway in heavy rain.
Initial reports suggest the aircraft ploughed into a busy market before crashing into one of the commercial centres of the city.
The Kinshasa-bound flight was carrying an estimated 80 passengers and six crew members.
Tearfund partner HEAL Africa runs a hospital less than a mile from the crash site and workers have been helping the survivors.
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A spokesman for HEAL Africa said, `Staff are treating 83 casualties who were brought from the scene of the accident.
`Eleven of the most severely burned survivors died during the night.
`News reports tell of 10,000–15,000 people at the scene, many trying to extinguish the fire carrying buckets of water.’
Last Friday, the European Union added Hewa Bora Airlines to its blacklist of airlines banned from flying into EU air space.