Two Philippine Army soldiers are shot dead while gathering supplies to assist the search for four people, including two from Adelaide, who were declared missing after a light plane crash at the site of an active volcano, local authorities have said.
Search teams are now barely a kilometre from the crash site, local authorities have said.abc.net.au/news/philippines-volcano-light-plane-crash-search-soldiers-killed/102006940The search for four people, including two Australians, missing after a light plane crash on an active volcano in the Philippines has been further hampered by the fatal shooting of two soldiers involved in the operation, local authorities have said.
Manila-based geothermal company Energy Development Corporation — which employed Mr Chipperfield and Mr Santhanam as technical consultants — has confirmed that aerial photos of wreckage on Mayon volcano show the company's plane.Search teams are now closing in on the crash site, local authorities have said.
"It was learned that while the two soldiers were in the market, five armed men ambushed them and three of them indiscriminately shot the victims," Captain Frank Roldan said in a statement on the Philippine News Agency website.
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