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Rescuers in high-risk volcano search for crashed Philippine plane

People watch Mount Mayon volcano erupt in 2018 in Daraga, Albay province, south of Manila, the Philippines [File: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters]

Rescue workers in the Philippines are climbing an active volcano in a “very risky operation” to reach the wreckage of a small plane that crashed over the weekend with four people on board, officials said.

The four, including two Australians, were flying in a Cessna 340 aircraft when it went missing on Saturday morning after taking off for Manila from Bicol International Airport in the central province of Albay, several kilometres from Mount Mayon volcano.

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