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A plane carrying at least two senior members of a rebel movement operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crashed on Friday in Geti, Ituri province, a spokesman for the movement announced on Radio Candip.
"According to information we have received, there are no survivors," Wale Sombo, spokesman for the Ugandan-backed Rassemblement congolais pour la denmocratie/Mouvement de liberation, said.
However, he added that a team from the movement's executive council had gone to the crash site to search for survivors. He said the movement's commissar for education, the deputy commissar in charge for foreign affairs and "some officers" had been on board. It is unclear how many people were on the plane, owned by the Eagle Company. The plane, whose type was not identified, took off from the northeastern Conglese town of Bunia for Entebbe, in Uganda, via Beni in the DRC.
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