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Plane hits hangar where people were sheltering in storm in Poland. Pilot and 4 others die and 8 hurt

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Authorities in Poland say five people have been killed and another eight others injured when a Cessna 208 crashed into a hangar at a sky diving center in bad weather. Firefighters say those killed Monday afternoon in Chrcynno in central Poland were the plane’s pilot and four people who were sheltering in the hangar from sudden stormy weather. Police say eight more people, including a child, were injured in the crash, two of them seriously. Firefighters and airborne ambulances took injured victims to local hospitals in the Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki area. Prosecutors and police are investigating the cause of the accident.

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