Plane kills sunbathers

A LIGHT plane has made an emergency landing on a packed beach near Lisbon, killing a 56-year-old man and an 8-year-old girl who were sunbathing, authorities said.

Hundreds of sunbathers were on the popular beach at Caparica, 30km south of the capital of Portugal, and witnesses said some sunbathers ran into the sea to avoid the plane.

The National Maritime Authority said the man and girl died on the beach.

The small aircraft carrying two people was being used for a flying lesson.