Five people have died after a military cargo plane crashed in the southern US state of Georgia.

They were aboard the C‑130 plane when it came down beside a highway intersection near the local airport in the coastal city of Savannah.

The plane belonged to Puerto Rico Air National Guard and was on a training flight.

Images shared on social media showed wreckage engulfed in flames and black smoke spewing into the sky.

Georgia Air National said in a statement that five people were on the plane A.

Source : BBC News