PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Nine people were found dead at the site of a U.N. plane crash in Haiti on Friday, a local government official said.

The plane went down on farmland near the village of Pays-Pourri in the district of Ganthier, east of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, said Eralus Thelusme, an official with the Pays-Pourri government.

"Nine people have been found dead. They were wearing green uniforms," he said. (Reporting by Joseph Guyler Delva; Editing by Jim Loney and Bill Trott)

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