Riot police use teargas to disperse people gathering around wreckage of plane loaded with money from central bank
At least 15 people have died after a military cargo plane carrying banknotes crashed on Friday near Bolivia’s capital, damaging about a dozen vehicles on a highway and scattering bills on the ground, an official has said.
Fire chief Pavel Tovar did not specify if those killed were in the plane or on the highway near the airport in La Paz. He said people had been injured.
Footage from local media showed people rushing to collect the bills while police in riot gear tried to disperse them using teargas.
The aircraft, a C-130 Hercules transport plane, skidded off the runway at El Alto international airport and veered along an avenue before coming to rest in a field, local media footage showed.
