‘Significant evidence’ UN boss’s plane was shot down

Former secretary general Dag Hammarskjold’s 1961 death has remained a mystery

Officials search the crash site in 1961
Officials search the crash site in 1961
(Image credit: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

There is a “significant amount of evidence” a plane carrying then UN boss Dag Hammarskjold, which crashed in central Africa in 1961, was brought down by another aircraft, a new UN report has claimed.

According to The Guardian, the report delivered to current UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last month includes previously undisclosed information provided by the American, British, Belgian, Canadian and German governments.

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