Three killed in plane crash in Utah: police

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Three people on board a plane were killed Saturday when it crashed in West Jordan in the western U.S. state of Utah, local police said.

A total of six people, including three children, were on board the plane, and the dead include a child, the West Jordan Police Department tweeted.

The single-engine Piper PA-32 crashed under unknown circumstances into a residential backyard in West Jordan, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said earlier in a statement.

An elderly female was injured inside the house which the plane struck and she is in critical condition, said the police.

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the accident.