Several people were reportedly left injured after a fire on a Ryanair plane at Majorca’s Palma airport. The small blaze broke out just after midnight local time this morning, July 5 (11pm, July 4 BST).

Some passengers on board were filmed abandoning the plane via one of its wings before jumping to the tarmac, as firefighters and police rushed to the scene. Regional medical emergency response coordinators said 18 people needed assistance, with what are being described locally as minor injuries. Six had to be taken to hospital. 

It was not immediately clear what type of injuries they had suffered.

It is also not yet clear if the Ryanair plane was about to take off or had just landed and where it had come from or was going to.

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