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Ethiopia Airlines cargo plane catches fire at Shanghai airport

Reuters , Wednesday 22 Jul 2020

FILE PHOTO: A member of the ground crew directs an Ethiopian Airlines plane at the Bole Internationa
FILE PHOTO: A member of the ground crew directs an Ethiopian Airlines plane at the Bole International Airport in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, August 21, 2015. (Reuters)

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An Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane caught fire at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Wednesday afternoon, The Paper, a Chinese news website backed by the Shanghai government, reported.

Shanghai's fire department said, in a posting on its Weibo account, that it has dispatched 18 fire trucks to put out the fire and no casualties have been reported by so far. 

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