All eight crew killed in cargo plane crash in Greece

All eight crew members of a cargo plane that crashed near the Greek city of Kavala died in the accident, Serbia’s defence minister said on Sunday.

The Ukrainian-operated Antonov An-12 was carrying around 11 tonnes of weapons, particularly mines, to Bangladesh when it crashed on Saturday night, minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said.

“Sadly, according to the information we have received, the eight members of the crew died in the crash,” Stefanovic told a news conference.

Videos shared on social media by eyewitnesses showed the plane engulfed by a giant fireball as it hit the ground.

Denys Bogdanovych, general director of Meridian, the Ukrainian cargo airline operating the plane, told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle the crew were all Ukrainian. He gave no information about the cargo.