A Beech King Air 350 type small plane crashed into a rice field in the town of Ampatuan in the southern Philippines’ Maguindanao del Sur province for an unknown reason at around 14:00 local time, leaving 4 people on board dead.

It was learned that 3 of the people on board, who were removed from under the plane’s debris by locals nearby, were foreign nationals and police have initiated an investigation to determine their identities.