Four killed as light aircraft crashes in Somerset

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Four people have died after a light aircraft crashed in Somerset, police said.

Two men and two women were killed when the six-seater came down near Churchinford in the Blackdown Hills south of Taunton just before 11.45am.

The aircraft was en route from Surrey to Dunkeswell Aerodrome in east Devon when it crashed, Avon and Somerset Police said.

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