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A Lithuanian medic takes a photo on his mobile phone of the wreckage of a cargo plane following its crash near the Vilnius International Airport in Vilnius on November 25, 2024. A DHL cargo plane flying from Germany to Lithuania crashed early on November 25, 2024 near the airport of the capital Vilnius killing one person, firefighters said. Image Credit: AFP

Vilnius: A cargo plane flying from Germany to Lithuania crashed early Monday near the airport of the capital Vilnius killing one person, firefighters said.

"The plane was due to land at Vilnius airport and crashed a few kilometres away," Renatas Pozela, the head of the firefighting and emergency services unit said, adding that one person in the four-member crew died.