A Sri Lankan child on March 25 runs past the propellor of the Russian-made An-12 cargo plane which crashed in a residential area upon approach to the island's only international airport. The crash, which killed at least nine people, including six crew, damaged several houses when the plane, on a flight from Bangkok, crashed just short of the airport at Katunayake, some 21 km (13 miles) north of the capital Colombo, in blinding rain late on Friday. The dead included five Russian and one Sri Lankan crew and three people, including a child, who were killed on the ground.

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