Agricultural plane crashes into kindergarten in Brazil, no one hurt
An agricultural aircraft hit a kindergarten building in Brazil's Mato Grosso state while 183 children and 40 staff were inside. Nobody was injured on the ground, and the pilot was taken to hospital.
An agricultural aircraft crashed into a kindergarten in central Brazil on Friday. The incident happened at the “Coralina” kindergarten in Campo Verde, in the state of Mato Grosso. Nobody inside the building was hurt, though the pilot was taken to hospital.
According to the Brazilian outlet “Globo”, 183 children aged between one and five and 40 staff members were in the facility when the plane struck. The aircraft hit a section of the building where no children were present, which is why there were no casualties among them.
How events unfolded
The plane had taken off from an airfield roughly one kilometre from the kindergarten shortly before the crash. It then slammed into the building.
Firefighters and rescuers arrived at the scene and determined that there was no danger of an explosion. The pilot, a 28-year-old man, received emergency medical treatment and was then taken to hospital.
The source does not state what caused the crash or describe the pilot's condition. No further details about the circumstances are available at this time.
