BBC News reports that over a hundred people have lost their lives in a plane crash that just happened in Cuba. These people met their deaths after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed and exploded near Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuban state media say.
Cuban Communist party newspaper, Granma reports that there are 3 survivors in critical condition. The plane is said to have come down shortly after take off, crashing in a field
It was carrying 104 passengers and nine foreign crew, according to local media.
"There has been an unfortunate aviation accident. The news is not very promising, it seems that there is a high number of victims," Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said after visiting the crash site.
The airliner had been leased to state airline Cubana de Aviación by the Mexican company Damojh, Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said.
State TV said it was an internal flight from the Cuban capital to the city of Holguin, in the east of the island.
Radio Havana Cuba said on Twitter that the plane came down on the "highway" between Boyeros and Havana, near the airport.
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