One person is reported to have been killed and at least two others injured after a DHL cargo plane crashed near Lithuania’s Vilnius airport, officials have said.
Firefighters were seen pouring water on to clouds of smoke coming from a building 1.3 km (0.8 mile) north of the airport runway, Reuters reported.
Large numbers of police and ambulance staff were seen nearby, and several busy streets were cordoned off.
Pictures on social media purporting to be of the crash showed a large blaze near buildings.
The aeroplane, operated by the SWIFT airline on behalf of DHL, had taken off from Leipzig before crashing in to a house, a spokesperson for the governmental National Crisis Management Centre said.
All those in the house survived, he added.
The Lithuanian airport authority identified the aircraft as a “DHL cargo plane flying from Leipzig, Germany, to Vilnius airport”.
While the details of the incident remain unclear, it comes weeks after security officials in Lithuania said they believed parcels that exploded at logistics depots in Europe were part of a test run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the US.
Explosions in courier depots in Britain, Germany and Poland this July, were the work of Russia, a Lithuanian presidential adviser said this month.
In October Lithuanian police arrested a suspect who sent four incendiary devices, including two via DHL from Vilnius.
Poland also detained four people suspected of being involved in test runs on US-bound transatlantic flights.
With agencies