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The 4-years-old sole survivor of a plane crash in Khabarovsk has returned home for the first time. Nina Pahomova, director of Nelkan School, believes that the child only survived because a teacher covered her child's body with her own, shortly before impact. The girl was the sole survivor of a seven-passenger-plane that crashed shortly after midday in the Eastern Russian village of Nelken.
Teenager Autumn Veatch survived two days in the woods after a small plane she was travelling in crashed near Mazama, Washington.
The World Health Organization strengthens its air quality guidelines as WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says air pollution "contributes to seven million deaths a year." The WHO's new guidelines recommend air quality levels for six pollutants, including ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide. SOUNDBITE
Images of onlookers gather at the crash site of a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Beechcraft KingAir B350i aircraft, which was returning to Abuja Airport after reporting engine failure en route to Minna. All 7 personnel on board died in the crash. IMAGES
At least seven people were killed Sunday and another three injured when a small plane crashed in southwestern Colombia, authorities said. IMAGES