At least 15 people were killed and over 30 were reportedly injured after a Bolivian Air Force's C-130H Hercules plane crash near Bolivia's capital La Paz on Friday evening, February 28. According to reports, the plane descended on the busy road in El Alto outside international airport.
The incident occurred when the flight was departed from Santa Cruz with new banknotes from the central bank and crashed after landing and skidding off the runway onto a neighboring avenue due to bad weather in El Alto, according to Sky News.
However, it is not clear whether if the dead were in the plane or in the cars on the highway near the airport in La Paz. Fire Chief Pavel Tovar said there were people injured.
A chaos and chaotic scenes can be seen in videos shared on social sites where people can be seen picking up money which spread on the ground after crash. Local authorities on the scene were warding off people using water hoses.
Another video shows that the aircraft was severely damaged, as were a number of vehicles along the road where the crash took place. Firefighters managed to extinguish the flames engulfing the aircraft.