Eleven people have died after an aircraft belonging to a skydiving school crashed in France.

Ten passengers and the pilot were killed in the crash in the eastern town of Tomblaine at around 11am on Sunday, local authorities said.

The plane, which had taken off from the Nancy-Essey airfield, was carrying five skydiving students and five instructors.

The French interior minister is on his way to the scene.

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