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Cuban plane crashes with 68 people on board
A Cuban airliner flying from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to the capital crashed Thursday night with 68 people aboard, including 61 passengers and seven crew members.
There were 28 foreigners on the plane, state media reported.
The flight would have been one of the last leaving Santiago de Cuba for Havana ahead of Tropical Storm Tomas, which was on a track to pass between Cuba's eastern end and the western coast of Haiti on Friday. Cuban media said earlier that flights and train service to Santiago were being suspended until the storm passed.
State media gave no details on what happened to the airliner, saying only that the cause of the crash was being investigated.
