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At least one dead and three injured near Vilnius

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At least one person has died and three others have been injured after a cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport in Lithuania in the early hours of Monday.

A search is currently under way for a fourth person.

The plane, operated for DHL by the Spanish cargo airline Swiftair, crashed near a house as it was on its final approach for landing, local authorities said.

Police said all 12 people have been safely evacuated from a house close to the crash site.

The aircraft departed from DHL’s hub at Leipzig Airport in Germany just after 03:00 local time (02:00 GMT) and crashed around an hour and a half later, according to data from flight-tracking website Flightradar24.

Flight operations are continuing ay Vilnius airport as authorities respond to the crash, Flightradar24 said on X.

Firefighters were seen tackling smoke coming from a building 1.3 km (0.8 mile) north of the airport runway, Reuters news agency reported.

The cause of the crash is unknown and Lithuanian authorities have started an investigation.

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