Warsaw: Authorities reported that on Monday, a Cessna 208 plane crashed into a hangar at a skydiving center while it was in bad weather, leaving five people dead and eight others hurt.
According to the firefighters' spokesperson Monika Nowakowska-Brynda, the afternoon crash in Chrcynno, central Poland, claimed the lives of the plane's pilot and four people who were seeking shelter from stormy weather in the hangar.
Eight more people were hurt, two of whom required medical attention, according to the police. According to Sylwester Dabrowski, the provincial governor, one of the injured was a child.
About 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of Warsaw is Chrcynno.
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The injured were transported to hospitals in the Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki region by firefighters and airborne ambulances.
Katarzyna Urbanowska, another representative for the local firefighters, said that rescuers were still searching the hangar for additional victims.
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Police and prosecutors were looking into the accident's cause.
It was the worst skydiving-related incident to occur in Poland since a small plane crash in Topolow, close to the southern city of Czestochowa, in 2014 that claimed the lives of 11 people.
