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PLANES IN MID-AIR COLLISION
A Tupolev and a Boeing airliner have collided in mid-air over southern Germany, state officials said tonight.
The crash happened over the state of Baden-Wuerttember. There was no immediate word on causalities.
A spokesman for the state’s interior ministry said the planes went down near the city of Sigmariegen, near Lake Constance.
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FRANKFURT: Lake Constance.
No further information on the aircraft or passengers aboard was immediately available.
An eyewitness speaking to state German ARD television said he saw two large balls of fire in the sky. Another told the TV station he had seen bodies on the streets.
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