Washington_  At least two people were killed and three others were wounded today, when a C-130 military transport plane crashed near the Savannah Hilton International Airport in the state of Georgia, Prensa Latina reported. 

In the apparatus, belonging to the National Guard of Puerto Rico, five people were traveling, who participated in a training mission, local media reported.

Eyewitness said they saw the aircraft explode immediately after falling at the intersection of Highway 21 and Gulfstream Road, a few kilometers from the airfield, apparently on some of the cars that were passing by, so it is presumed there would be more victims.

In early April the Pentagon published a report according to which since 2013 there were more than five thousand 500 similar events, which means an increase of 38 percent - compared to a report in 2012 - in which 133 soldiers lost their lives .

So far in 2018, five airplanes of the armed forces have crashed, with a balance of nine soldiers and officers killed, while in 2017 the number of deaths in incidents of that type amounted to 37, almost double of those who died for the same reasons in 2016.

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