WARNING: Graphic footage.
Seven people have been killed after a Hawker Hunter jet crashed into vehicles on a major road in West Sussex, England, while performing stunts at an airshow on Saturday.
The incident occurred at the Shoreham Airshow in West Sussex around 1:20 p.m. local time, as the plane was attempting to perform a loop but crashed into the A27 road.
"The aircraft ended up in a bush," Sussex Police said in a statement. "There have been several casualties but we have no further information on these at the moment."
However, the South East Coast Ambulance Service later said seven people had been killed in the crash.
Another person was said to be receiving treatment for life-threatening injuries, while 14 people received minor injuries.
Police said the highway had been closed in both directions, with motorists asked to avoid the area.
Footage uploaded to YouTube showed the moment of the crash, as the fighter aircraft dives towards the ground before erupting in a huge fireball.
"We were waiting for it to go back up and it didn't," Ailish Southall, who was on the A27 with her children, told BBC radio. "It seemed to kind of split in two. There were huge amounts of fire and we ran from the car to kind of avoid the debris because we were about 15 meters away, we were just across the road from where the accident happened."
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