A total of 13 passengers and crew have been killed after an Ukrainian-built plane crashed north of the Republic of Congo, sources from Brazzaville said Saturday.

The Antonov 26, registered in neighboring the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), went down 50 km north of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, on Friday afternoon, the sources who asked to be anonymous said.

So far 13 dead bodies have been found by rescue workers, he said, including the four-person Ukrainian crew. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.

On Monday, a Russian-made Antonov 26 plane crashed in northeastern DRC, killing all 11 people on board, according to the country's civil aviation authority.

The aircraft crashed near the town of Isiro, some 300 km northeast of the provincial capital of Kisangani shortly before landing early Monday.Source: Xinhua

Source: Xinhua