Ajit Pawar, deputy chief minister of India's Maharashtra state, has died in a plane crash along with four other people, the country's aviation regulator has said.
The plane, which had taken off from Mumbai, crash-landed at the airport in Pawar's constituency of Baramati, where it had been headed, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said.
The cause of the crash has not been officially confirmed yet.
Two members of Pawar's staff and two crew were killed along with the deputy chief minister.
Visuals from the crash site show the wreckage of a plane engulfed in plumes of smoke and flames.
