11 killed in UN Haiti plane crash

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UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said the Uruguayan CASA212 aircraft went down in rugged terrain west of Fonds-Verrettes near the border with the Dominican Republic.

Rescue teams had to reach the area by foot because there were no roads nearby, and they found no survivors, she said.

All bodies were recovered and would be taken back to the capital of Port-au-Prince, according to a statement from the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti.

Dozens of UN vehicles were parked near the main road that connects Port-au-Prince to the Dominican border, unable to get any closer to the crash site, which is in the Ganthier municipality.

Haitian police officer David Charles said personnel from his convoy walked about two hours up the mountain but was not able to reach the crash site because it was on the other side of a ridge and a river.

The victims were Uruguayan and Jordanian military personnel serving with the 9,000-strong UN peacekeeping force that has been in Haiti since a 2004 rebellion ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Ms Montas said.

The United Nations has began an investigation into the crash, Ms Montas said.