Date
Wednesday April 6, 1994
Titre
Urgent [Plane crash. Rwanda and Burundi Presidents may have died, (French foreign ministry)]
Cote
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Citation
PARIS, April 6 (AFP) - A plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi
crashed Wednesday at the airport in the Rwandan capital Kigali and the two presidents may have died, the French foreign ministry said.
The ministry quoted the French ambassador in Rwanda.
It said the plane was bringing President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi back from a meeting with other African leaders in Tanzania on how to curb ethnic violence in Rwanda and Burundi.
The French ministry said details of the incident were still sketchy.
Earlier reports from Brussels only mentioned Habyarimana as being in the plane and said it had been shot down.
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