A plane carrying Paraguayan Agriculture Minister Luis Gneiting has been found by search and rescue teams after it went missing on Wednesday evening, an official at the country's aviation authority told local radio.The aircraft was found 6km away from Ayolas airport, where it took off. “It is with great sadness that we announce the deaths of four people on a flight that had an accident,” said Joaquin Roa, the head of the National Emergency Secretariat, adding that emergency workers were currently trying to recover the bodies and that the aircraft was “totally disintegrated.”

A search and rescue team located the small aircraft on Thursday morning six kilometers (3.73 miles) from the airport in the southern city of Ayolas, where the plane took off, Luis Aguirre, head of the National Civil Aviation Directorate told Reuters. Gneiting, who took office two months ago, is a former governor of Itapua department, one of Paraguay’s main soy producing regions.
Paraguay's Minister of Agriculture, Luis Gneiting, and three others are killed in a plane crash near Ayolas.