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A plane carrying about seventy passengers crashed this Friday in a residential area of ​​a Brazilian municipality. from Vinhedo, in the state of Sao Paulo, The local fire department reported this.

According to the Globonews TV channel, There were 62 people on the plane.including 58 passengers and four crew members.

This was reported by the mayor’s office of the Brazilian city, whose firefighters took part in the rescue operations for those injured in the accident. There were no survivors among the plane’s passengers.

According to the mayor’s sources, with whom he consulted EFEFirefighters suspended rescue efforts after finding no survivors.

Seven fire brigades were mobilized to deal with the accident, the department reported, without specifying whether there were any casualties.

Authorities in Vinedo said the plane crashed in the backyards of some homes in the city’s urbanization, but that not a single building was damaged There were no casualties among the people on the ground.

According to a statement from Voepass, it was a twin-engine ATR-72-500 aircraft that made the journey. between the city of Cascavel and Sao Paulo It hit the ground at around 1:25 p.m. local time (16:25 GMT).

Neither Voepass nor aviation authorities have provided any information on the possible causes of the crash.

Videos posted on social media showed the plane spinning on its own before crashing with a loud noise in the municipality of Vinhedo on the outskirts of Sao Paulo.

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According to EFE