Plane crashes in Pakistan’s Lahore, 2 dead

  A private two-seater plane apparently on a training flight, crashed into a house in Pakistan’s second largest city of Lahore on Thursday, killing the pilot and co-pilot, officials said. Police said the aircraft came down in Lahore’s wealthy Model Town neighbourhood but that no one on the ground was hurt. Television footage showed the mangled wreck of a small white plane marked Hybrid Aviation. “A two-seater, private plane crashed. Two people were on board. We think one was the pilot and the second the co-pilot, both of them have died,” police official Maroof Safdar Wala said. “It crashed on a house, but the residents are safe,” he added. Local resident Tahir Kardar, a retired colonel, told Waqt TV that the pilot and co-pilot died. “Rescue people are here and they are trying to cut the bodies out of the plane,” he said.