By DPA
Bogota : Three members of the crew and three soldiers were killed when a Colombian military aeroplane went down in the mountains south of the country, El Tiempo newspaper reported Sunday, citing a military spokesman.
The cause of the accident was not immediately known.
The military has not ruled out the possibility that rebels could have shot down the propeller plane, which crashed Saturday, but General Jorge Octavio Ardila Silva would not confirm this.
A patrol of government troops had been sent to the site of the crash, which lies in enemy territory, the general said.