Aircraft crash at show in India  

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Two people have died and four more injured after an Indian naval aircraft crashed during an acrobatics display in the southern city of Hyderabad. Police said the plane came down in a residential neighbourhood of the city on Wednesday. Indian TV news channels showed the plane flying in a formation at the air show shortly before it crashed into densely populated land adjacent to the show ground. "In the final phase, the aircraft appears to have gone out of control. They crashed into a building and the pilots have died," Nirmal Verma, a navy chief, said. He was unable to say if there were further casualties on the ground. But Prerna Suri, Al Jazeera's India correspondent, said the state police department had confirmed the two deaths and four injured. "The Indian army, the state police and the fire department have been deployed to comb the area for survivors," she said. "It was a very crowed area so the casualty count is expected to go up. "The aircraft was manned by two pilots, both have been declared dead. - Al Jazeera


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