Croatia plane crash kills 4

Four people were killed on Thursday in a plane crash on Croatia’s northern Adriatic coast, police said.

“According to currently available information four people have died” in the crash of the plane in Medulin, on Croatia’s northwestern Istria peninsula, a police statement said.

The accident occurred in the Campanoz area, outside the town, and “all emergency services are on the scene”, it added.

The national firefighting association said it had received a report of the crash near the Medulin sports airfield at 11.19am on Thursday morning.

Seven firefighters with three fire vehicles were sent with three emergency medical teams, a helicopter emergency medical team, and police, it said on social media.