French authorities responding to incident involving civilian aircraft

(Newspaper corrects description of group in second paragraph)

PARIS, June 28 (Reuters) – Authorities were responding to an incident involving a civilian aircraft in the town of Tomblaine in northeastern France on Sunday, the local prefecture said.

Newspaper L’Est Republicain reported a plane that was transporting a group of skydivers had crashed.

(Reporting by Makini Brice and Bertrand Boucey; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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