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TransAsia Airways plane with 53 passengers crashes into a river after hitting a bridge in New Taipei City.
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Fatalities rise ... rescue personnel work to free passengers from a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane that crash-landed into a river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
Passengers from the TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
Moving the injured ... a rescue crew carries a passenger from a TransAsia Airways ATR 72-600 turboprop airplane. Picture: Ashley Pon/Getty Images Source: Getty Images
Rescuing survivors ... a passenger from a TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane that crash-landed into a river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei on a stretcher. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
On the scene ... rescue personnel put an injured passenger into an ambulance. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
The crash site ... rescue teams work to free people from a TransAsia Airways ATR 72-600 turboprop airplane that crashed into the Keelung River. Picture: Ashley Pon/Getty Images Source: Getty Images
Rescuers carry out a rescue operation after a TransAsia Airways plane crash landed in a river, in New Taipei City, February 4, 2015. (Reuters/Pichi Chuang)
Rescuers pull a passenger out of the TransAsia Airways plane which crash landed in a river in New Taipei City, February 4, 2015.
Rescuers carry out rescue operation after a TransAsia Airways plane crash landed in a river, in New Taipei City, February 4, 2015.
Rescuers carry out a rescue operation after a TransAsia Airways plane crash landed in a river, in New Taipei City, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang
A dashcam pictures the plane flying lower over a bridge in Taipei before crashing in the river.
The taxi that was hit by the plane as it crashed into the river. The driver has been taken to hospital and is in a stable condition.
Rescued passengers are taken to shore for transport to local hospitals.