A small passenger plane has crashed into Lake Victoria on approach to an airport in Tanzania, and authorities say at least three people died.
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Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa raised the death toll up from the three dead announced previously. Local authorities said earlier Sunday that 26 of the 43 people on the Precision Air flight from the coastal city of Dar es Salaam were rescued and taken to a hospital. It was not clear if the new death toll included people who died at the hospital.
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