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Plane crash: Spanish king cancels state visit to France

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Last Updated : Mar 24 2015 | 7:22 PM IST

Spanish King Felipe VI, who is on a state visit to France, announced after a meeting with French President Francois Hollande in Elysee, that he was cancelling his visit due to the plane crash on Tuesday in southern France.

According to King Felipe VI, there were no signs of survivors from the plane crash, Xinhua news agency reported.

An Airbus 320 of the German low-cost airline Germanwings, with 144 passengers and six crew members on board, crashed on Tuesday around 11 a.m. in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the southern France Alps,.

The plane was flying from Barcelona in Spain to Dusseldorf in Germany, when the tragedy occurred.

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First Published: Mar 24 2015 | 7:16 PM IST

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