LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A State Senator from North Dakota, U.S.A, his wife and their two children have reportedly died when a small plane they were traveling in crashed soon after a refuelling stop in Utah.
Doug Larsen’s death was confirmed in an email that Republican Senate Majority Leader, David Hogue sent to fellow senators, according to Associated Press (AP) reports.
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The plane is said to have crashed on 1 October evening, shortly after taking off from Canyonlands Airfield about 15 miles (24 kilometres) north of the desert recreation town of Moab, according to a Grand County Sheriff’s Department statement.
The sheriff’s office further revealed that the senator was the pilot and all four people on board the plane were killed.
“Senator Doug Larsen, his wife Amy, and their two young children died in a plane crash last evening in Utah,” Hogue wrote in his email. “They were visiting family in Scottsdale and returning home. They stopped to refuel in Utah,” the email disclosed.