Officials said that the death toll from the crash of a Boeing 737 that went down over a village in Congo has risen to seven, according to AP. The plane was flying from Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, a separate country, when it went down Wednesday. It was heading to Harare, Zimbabwe. At a news conference Thursday in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, another neighboring nation, Transportation Minister Col. Parfait Mbay said that all seven people on board were killed _ including one French national. Richard Nyangwile, who is the director of Congo's Civil Aviation Authority, confirmed that the death toll had risen to seven, up from what was initially believed to be three.
