<p class="title">Paraguay's agriculture minister and a deputy minister were among four people killed in an aeroplane crash near the Argentine border, rescuers said Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The twin-engine light aircraft had taken off from the southern fishing town of Ayolas on Wednesday afternoon but crashed soon afterward, just eight kilometers (4 miles) from the airport.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"There are no survivors," Roque Gonzalez, a member of a search and rescue unit, told AFP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The dead were identified as agriculture minister Luis Gneiting, deputy livestock minister Vicente Ramirez, civil servant Luis Charotti and pilot Gerardo Lopez.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gneiting was returning to the capital Asuncion, 300 kilometers away, after visiting his terminally ill mother, who died on Thursday just hours after her son.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.</p>
<p class="title">Paraguay's agriculture minister and a deputy minister were among four people killed in an aeroplane crash near the Argentine border, rescuers said Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The twin-engine light aircraft had taken off from the southern fishing town of Ayolas on Wednesday afternoon but crashed soon afterward, just eight kilometers (4 miles) from the airport.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"There are no survivors," Roque Gonzalez, a member of a search and rescue unit, told AFP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The dead were identified as agriculture minister Luis Gneiting, deputy livestock minister Vicente Ramirez, civil servant Luis Charotti and pilot Gerardo Lopez.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gneiting was returning to the capital Asuncion, 300 kilometers away, after visiting his terminally ill mother, who died on Thursday just hours after her son.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.</p>