Feverish campaigning for Suriname’s legislative elections next Tuesday was dampened yesterday as the bodies of the eight passengers killed on a domestic flight at the weekend, were brought to the capital Paramirabo.
An investigation has begun into what brought down the small plane which crashed 10 minutes after take-off near the border between Suriname and French Guiana on Saturday.
Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Slijngaard, who heads the National Coordinating Centre for Disaster Management said they were looking into eyewitness reports that the plane exploded while in the air.
The flight was operated by Blue Wings airline based in Paramaribo, it’s the third time one of their planes has crashed in two years.
