A plane carrying 132 people crashed in China. This was reported by the BBC with reference to state television.
A Boeing 737 of China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 from Kunming to Guangzhou crashed.
A fire broke out in the mountains as a result of the incident, the report said.
There are no data on the dead and injured yet, rescuers are being sent to the scene.
According to media reports, the plane crashed in a mountainous area in Teng County in the Wuzhou District of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
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According to Flightradar24, the Boeing 737-800 was built six years ago. It is known that the plane took off at 13:11 local time (05:11 GMT) and disappeared from radar at 14:22 (06:22 GMT) at an altitude of about 980 meters. He was due to land at 15:05 local time.
The last plane crash involving deaths occurred in China in 2010, when the Embraer E-190 of the local Henan Airlines company crashed while landing in low visibility conditions. Then 44 people out of 96 on board died.