Three survivors from Cuba airliner crash: state media

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Many are reportedly feared dead after an airliner crashed after takeoff from an airport in Havana on Friday, May 18./Adalberto Roque/AFP

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP)–Three people have been pulled alive from the wreckage of a Cuban airliner which crashed after takeoff Friday with 104 passengers aboard, and are in a critical condition in hospital, state media said.

The country’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who visited the crash site, warned earlier that many people were feared dead.