Five people have died after a Swiss-registered light aircraft crashed into a Lidl supermarket in Portugal.
Photos and footage taken by onlookers showed huge plumes of black smoke rising into the air from the scene of the disaster in the Lisbon suburb of Tires.
The deceased include the Swiss pilot, three French passengers on the plane and a Portuguese truck driver, emergency services operational commander Miguel Cruz has said.
The plane had just taken off from the Cascais Municipal Aerodome en route to Marseilles, France, when it ‘exploded in mid-air’ and plunged to the ground, according to witnesses.
