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20 priests among dead in Havana plane crash

Published:Saturday | May 19, 2018 | 12:00 AM
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Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel (third left) walks away from the site where a Boeing 737 crashed, while firefighters and rescure workers look on.

HAVANA (AP):

The Cuban Council of Churches says 20 priests from an evangelical church are among the dead in the Havana plane crash.

"On that plane were 10 couples of pastors, 20 people. All of the Nazarene Church in the eastern region," confirmed Maite Quesada, a member of the council.

The group had spent several days at a meeting in the capital and were returning to their homes and places of worship in the province of Holguin.