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D.R. of Congo: Plane wreckage has become part of the urban landscape

Thursday, February 28th, 2008 @ 18:14 UTC

by Jennifer Brea

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Countries:: D.R. of Congo
Topics:: Disaster
Languages:: French

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Malagasy:

Kôngô (RDK) : Lasa « mifangaro » amin'ny sisan'ilay fiaramanidina nianjera...

In October, Du Cabiau Kinshasa wrote about an Antonov plane which went down in Kinshasa, killing three dozen people. This week, he posts a photograph of part of the wreckage, which casually sits somewhere along the road to the airport. “No one is interested in it anymore. The urban jungle has swallowed it up.”

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