Air crash kills 3 in central Colombia

Colombian authorities confirmed that a Cessna 402 light aircraft crashed in the outskirts of Cajica municipality, about 28 kilometers north from Bogota, the national capital, Saturday, killing all three people on board.

The airplane, which belonged to the Aeroexpress company, reported an emergency at 10:02 a.m. local time (1502 GMT) Saturday before it crashed minutes in a rural area close to a house in the Cajica outskirts, the country's Civil Aeronautic said in an official statement.

The victims, who were identified as Jair Cortes, Oscar Tellez and Erwin Franco, were conducting an instruction flight when the air crash happened.

The bodies of the three victims were removed from the place and authorities are conducting further investigations to determine the cause of the accident.