Finnish woman killed in Tanzania plane crash

NAIROBI, Jan 7 (Reuters) A Finnish woman was killed and 10 other people injured when their light aircraft crashed in Tanzania's south-eastern Selous game reserve, an official today said.

The plane, carrying tourists from Britain and Finland, crashed on landing at the Matambwe airstrip in the reserve on Friday.

''The plane overshot the runway and went into a bush. One person died and others were injured,'' Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Abel Ngapemba told Reuters by phone, adding that the plane had completely burnt.

The wounded were taken to a hospital in the commercial capital Dar Es Salaam, he added.

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