Colombia plane crash kills five in Bogota Published duration 19 October 2015

media caption The light aircraft crashed into a residential area of Bogota

A small plane crashed in the Colombian capital Bogota on Sunday killing five people.

The pilot and three passengers died when the plane came down in the Engativa neighbourhood.

The plane crashed into a bakery, setting it alight. One person inside was killed and seven others injured.

Officials said the reasons for the accident were still unknown. The plane was the third to crash in or near the capital in as many months.

image copyright Reuters image caption The corner bakery was destroyed by the fire

image copyright AP image caption Dozens of firefighters were deployed to extinguish the blaze

A neighbour said she saw the twin-motor plane grazing a number of roofs before it got entangled in overhead power lines and crashed into the bakery.

It had taken off minutes earlier from Bogota's El Dorado airport and was heading to the nearby town of Guaymaral.

Members of Colombia's Conservative Party said the plane was scheduled to pick up former president Andres Pastrana, former defence minister Marta Lucia Ramirez and ex-peace commissioner Camilo Gomez, but they were not on board at the time of the accident.

The politicians had hired the aircraft to take them to a campaign rally for Nancy Patricia Gutierrez, who is running for governor of Cundinamarca province in Sunday's local elections.