A family’s small plane crashed into a commercial area of the southern Brazilian city of Gramado early Sunday, killing ten of its members, according to civil defense officials.
Officials had previously declared nine people dead.
Luiz Claudio Salgueiro Galeazzi, a businessman, was piloting the Piper Cheyenne 400 turboprop, according to police, and all of the passengers were his relatives, AFP reported.
Soon after taking off from the nearby city of Canela, the plane crashed, hitting a building’s chimney, a house, and finally a furniture store, according to a statement from the state security secretariat of Rio Grande do Sul.
There was also mention of damage to an inn.
Cleber dos Santos Lima of the state civil police told AFP, “There are no survivors of the plane.”
At least 17 individuals sustained serious injuries on the ground, and several others received treatment for smoke inhalation.
Investigations are underway to determine the accident’s cause.
Brazil’s popular tourist destination, Gramado, sees a large influx of tourists around Christmas.
In August of last year, a twin-engine plane carrying 62 people crashed in the Sao Paulo state city of Vinhedo, causing Brazil’s worst aviation disaster in 17 years. There were no survivors.
Additionally, 41 people lost their lives in a bus crash in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais on Saturday, one of the worst traffic accidents in the nation’s history.
