FIVE Australians are among 44 people believed to have died in a plane crash in Laos.
The Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra say they couldn't yet confirm the number of Australians aboard but were trying to varify the reports.
The Lao Airlines plane, carrying mostly foreigners, crashed into the Mekong River in southern Laos on Wednesday, the airline said on its Facebook page.
All 44 passengers and five crew members were presumed dead although a search is still underway for survivors in the river, the state-owned airline reported.
The ATR 72-600, a twin-engine turboprop aircraft, crashed near Pakse, the capital of Champasak province, about 4pm (2000 AEDT) after flying into a rainstorm, the airline said.
The passenger list consisted of 17 Laotians, seven French nationals, five Australians, five Thais, three South Koreans, two Vietnamese, one Chinese, one Canadian, one Myanmar national, one person from Taiwan and one American.
Relatives of the passengers had been informed of the accident, Lao Airlines said.
Photos of the aircraft partially submerged in the Mekong near Done Kho Island were posted on a number of Facebook pages.
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