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Multiple fatalities after plane crash in Croatia's Istria region: police

At least four people have been killed in a plane crash on Croatia’s northern Adriatic coast, police said.

“According to currently available information, four people have died” in the crash of the plane in Medulin, on Croatia’s northwestern Istria peninsula, a police statement said on Thursday.

The accident occurred in the Campanoz area, outside the town, and “all emergency services are on the scene”, it added.

The national firefighting association said it had received a report of the crash near the Medulin sports airfield at 0919 GMT on Thursday morning.

Seven firefighters with three fire vehicles were sent with three emergency medical teams, a helicopter emergency medical team, and police, it said on Facebook.

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