MANILA, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- A private plane with six passengers, including a patient and two pilots on board crashed into a private pool resort in Laguna province south of Manila on Sunday afternoon, police said.
Police said the injured victims and casualties will be determined as the investigation continues.
Police said two caretakers of the resort inside a subdivision in Pansol, a village in Calamba City, were injured in the accident that happened around 3 p.m. local time. They were rushed to a local hospital for treatment, police said.
Pansol is famous for private hot spring resorts.
Police said the plane was transporting a patient from Dipolog City in Zamboanga del Norte in the southern Philippines to Manila for a medical treatment. Among the passengers on board were a doctor and medical staff, police said.
According to witnesses, smoke engulfed the low-flying plane before it crashed and exploded in a fireball. They said that the plane attempted to ascend before it hit the ground.
Metal debris were falling from the plane while it was trying to maneuver, the witnesses added.
Firefighters and emergency personnel rushed to the scene minutes after the plane crashed.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines said that a medical evacuation plane lost radar contact with the Manila Control Tower while on its way back to Manila from Dipolog City. The body has yet to issue an official statement on the accident.
