New Delhi: Five people died following a collision between a tourist plane and a microlight aircraft in Western France, a report by news agency AFP said on Saturday.

The small microlight carrying two people collided with a DA40 tourist plane with three people onboard around 4:30pm (1430 GMT) in Loches, Indre-et-Loire prefecture, the news agency quoted a local government official as saying.

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