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Military aircraft crashes, injures 3 on the ground

An unidentified military aircraft crashed this morning in downtown Shantou, a city in Guangdong Province, setting a house on fire and injuring three people inside, according to CCTV news.

The air crash happened around 9am. The pilot parachuted to safety but his aircraft fell on a house in the city's Jinping District, setting off a big explosion.

One of the four people in the burning house managed to run out on his own. The other three were rescued and sent to a hospital for fire injuries.

An earlier CCTV report said the aircraft was a helicopter but others pointed out that helicopter pilots have no parachutes. The crashed aircraft could be a Jian-7 jet fighter.

The accident caused severe traffic jams on nearby roads.



 

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