Plane believed to be carrying UN staffers missing in DRC: sources

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2008

KINSHASA (AFP) — A small plane believed to be carrying United Nations staffers did not land as scheduled Monday in the Democratic Republic of Congo and officials were unsure of its whereabouts, UN sources said.

The Air Serve plane has the capacity to transport 19 passengers and was to travel a route that links the capital Kinshasa with the country's east. It had been expected in the eastern city of Bukavu.

"We don't know how many people were on board," said one of the UN sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"It seems that it did not land in Bujumbura (capital of neighbouring Burundi) nor Goma (another eastern city in the DR Congo)," the source said.

Members of the UN mission in the DR Congo were believed to be among the passengers.

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