FILE PHOTO: Governor of Itapua Luis Roberto Gneiting (C), Senator Lilian Samaniego (R) and Senator Juan Dario Monges attend a news conference, in Asuncion, Paraguay April 3, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno/File Photo
ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay Agriculture Minister Luis Gneiting and three others died when the twin engine airplane carrying them to the capital Asuncion crashed into a wetland on Wednesday night, an official told reporters on Thursday.
"It is with great sadness that we announce the deaths of four people on a flight that had an accident," said Joaquin Roa, the head of the National Emergency Secretariat, adding that emergency workers were currently trying to recover the bodies and that the aircraft was "totally disintegrated."
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