Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has confirmed two Australians are among those dead following a light plane crash in the Philippines.
Two South Australian men, Simon Chipperfield and Karthi Santhanam, as well as two Filipino pilots, were on board the flight when it crashed on Saturday morning.
Speaking from Fiji this morning, Senator Wong said that search and rescue teams had overnight reached the crash site, some 32 hours after its disappearance.
It was discovered near the crater of an active volcano in the Albay province.
“Sadly there are no survivors,” Senator Wong said.
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