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D.R. of Congo: Plane wreckage has become part of the urban landscape

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, D.R. of Congo, Disaster

In October, Du Cabiau Kinshasa wrote about an Antonov plane which went down in Kinshasa [1], killing three dozen people. This week, he posts a photograph of part of the wreckage, which casually sits somewhere along the road to the airport. “No one is interested in it anymore. The urban jungle has swallowed it up.”