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Civilian plane shot down in 'no-fly zone'

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    The Ethiopian government on Wednesday confirmed that it shot down a civilian jet on Sunday near the border with Eritrea close to the northern town of Adwa "after it had entered a no-fly zone" designated by the Ethiopian aviation authority. The Swedish and British pilots aboard were killed. The South African owners of the plane, ExecuJet, said it was not clear why the plane had ended up near the disputed frontier between Eritrea and Ethiopia when their approved routing, for which they had filed a flight plan, was via Djibouti, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

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