A courier whom Reuters spoke to near the building said he had rushed over to CITIC Tower around 6pm local time from a nearby location after hearing a loud crash as an aircraft about the size of a car hit the building.
“It was so loud – louder than fireworks,” he said.
He said he had shot a video of the aircraft sticking out of the building, but later deleted it because he was scared of getting caught by police.
Another courier whom Reuters spoke to said he had come to the scene after seeing unverified social media images showing wreckage of a small aircraft on a road next to the building.
Social media posts of the building on Friday were quickly removed from Chinese social media. A search of the building’s name on the Xiaohongshu app returned only posts dated Thursday.
Dozens of police cars and several fire trucks lined the roads around the building.
A police officer told Reuters journalists to depart from the scene. Asked why they had to leave, the police officer said: “We all know why!”
Read the full article here
