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Bodies of Six Australian Mining Executives Return Home

Left to Right: Geoff Wedlock, Ken Talbot, Craig Oliver, Don Lewis, John Carr-Gregg and John Jones

The six bodies of Australian mining executives including Queensland millionaire mining tycoon Ken Talbot who were killed in a plane crash in the thick jungle in the West African nation of Congo have been returned to their families in Australia.
There were total of 11 people on board of the chartered plane, among which six were Australians, two British, two French and one US citizen. They all died when their CASA C-212 Aviocar aircraft went down about 30 kilometres from s small mining town of Yangadou in Congo. The crash site with the bodies of the passengers was found two days later near Gabon border after the involvement of French military aircraft and the officials from Congo and Cameron.
Funeral service for Ken Talbot will be held at St John’s Cathedral in Brisbane on Wednesday morning.