TransAsia crash: Twelve dead as plane crashes into Taiwan river

A plane belonging to Taiwanese carrier TransAsia Airways has crash-landed in a river in Taipei.

More than 50 people were on board at the time, and a number of people are reportedly injured.

Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) showed a picture of the plane almost submerged in the Keelung River.

In July last year 48 people died when a TransAsia Airways plane crashed amid stormy weather in Taiwan's Penghu archipelago.

The cause of the latest incident is not immediately clear.

But CNA quoted a government spokesman as saying the plane crashed after hitting an elevated bridge.

The plane had just taken off from Taipei Songshan Airport and was headed to Kinmen Airport on the outskirts of Taiwan, just off the coast of south-east China.

BBC