An Indonesian military transport plane crashed into a hotel and residential area in the northern Sumatra city of Medan on Tuesday, June 30, killing at least 30 people, a national search and rescue agency official said. "That's the latest information, the number could go up," Hisar Turnip of the Basarnas agency told Reuters. Military spokesman Fuad Basya said that 12 personnel, including the pilot, had been aboard the C-130 Hercules. The bodies of five of them have been found. An Hercules C-130. Reuters Photo

"It passed overhead a few times, really low," said Elfrida Efi, a receptionist at the Golden Eleven Hotel.

"There was fire and black smoke. The third time it came by it crashed into the roof of the hotel and exploded straight away," she told Reuters by telephone.

She said the plane also hit a massage parlour, where there are normally several people during the daytime.