LONDON — Three relatives of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden were killed when a private plane crashed in Britain, police and the Saudi embassy said Saturday.
British police said three passengers and a pilot were killed Friday when an Embraer Phenom 300 jet crash-landed in a car auction site as it approached the runway at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, about 40 miles southwest of London.
“We do believe three of the deceased to be the mother, sister and brother-in-law of the owner of the aircraft, all of whom are from the bin Laden family, but formal post-mortem examinations are ongoing,” Hampshire police said.
“They were Saudi Arabian nationals and visiting the U.K. on vacation,” police said.
On Twitter, Prince Mohammed Bin Nawaf Bin Abdel-Aziz, the Saudi ambassador to London, offered his condolences to the bin Laden family without naming the victims.
Bin Laden, who had relatives in the United States and Saudi Arabia, was disowned by his family before the Sept. 11, 200, attacks in the U.S. The al-Qaida leader was killed by U.S. special forces in Pakistan on May 2, 2011.
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