An army plane with 22 people on board has crashed in Ecuador’s Amazon region. “There are no survivors. Our embrace of solidarity to the families and the armed forces. It is a tragedy,” President Rafael Correa said on Twitter (in Spanish). Nineteen of the people on board were Ecuadoran soldiers travelling for a parachuting exercise, BBC reported. The cause of the accident is unknown. There were also two pilots and one mechanic on board, EFE news agency reported.
