Three killed as Polish plane crashes in Germany

BIELEFELD - A Polish light plane crashed Monday in Germany, killing three occupants and leaving the fourth critically hurt, German police said.

The dead were two men and a woman. The surviving occupant, who was resuscitated in an area hospital, was a woman. Police said they did not yet know why the plane crashed. It came down in woods just 150 metres from a housing estate.

It was close to Windelsbleiche airfield near the north-western city of Bielefeld at the time of the crash.