13 killed in plane crash

Published August 7, 2005

ROME, Aug 6: Thirteen people were confirmed dead and three were missing after a plane carrying Italian tourists to Tunisia crash-landed on the sea off Sicily on Saturday, Italian and Tunisian officials said. Twenty-three of the 39 people aboard the ATR-72 jet, which was flying from the southern Italian city of Bari to the Tunisian resort of Djerba, were pulled out of the water by rescue boats that rushed out from the nearby port of Palermo, the officials said. Six of the survivors were in serious condition, Italian officials said..—AFP

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