
A plane carrying mostly Chinese tourists has crashed into a river in Taiwan, killing several people, the BBC reported.
Dramatic video footage emerged showing the TransAsia Airways plane clipping a bridge as it came down shortly after take-off from a Taipei airport.
The plane, carrying 58 people, has broken up and the fuselage is lying half-submerged in the Keelung River. The number of dead is still unclear.
Another TransAsia plane crashed in bad weather last July, killing 48 people.
Many of the people on board are still inside the aircraft.
Rescuers on boats have cut the plane open to gain access to several people still trapped inside.
The ATR-72 turbo-prop plane had just taken off from Taipei Songshan Airport and was heading to the Kinmen islands, just off the coast of the south-eastern Chinese city of Xiamen.
Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration said the last communication from one of the pilots had been: "Mayday, mayday, mayday."
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