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France: One killed and five others have been injured afterd a jet crashed into home for disabled




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According to the French authorities one person has been killed and five others have been injured in central France after a military training jet has crashed into a home for the disabled.

It is believed that the accident occurred when an Alpha Jet trainer was on a night-flying exercise over the Vouvray region, near the city of Tours in the Loire valley. The military aircraft, which was apparently on a training mission and came down at about 4:30pm Irish time yesterday afternoon. Luckily the pilot and student pilot parachuted to safety after making for “a dark area that appeared to be uninhabited,” said Colonel Cyril Duvivier, commander of the airforce base from where the plane took off.

It is understood one of the injured residents of the home was said to be in serious condition in hospital. The countries Health Minister Marisol Touraine, who travelled to Vouvray, said the 63-year-old resident who was killed had been living in the home “for several years”. She also called for a full and transparent investigation into the accident.

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