The death toll in the cargo plane crash that occurred on Friday evening in capital of the Republic of Congo has risen to 32, according to an official from the Congolese Red Cross on Saturday.

The official who dose not want to be named told Xinhua that among the deaths, there are six crew members and a number of other people aboard the plane.

Earlier, Rodolphe Adada, minister of the Republic of Congo's Transport and Civil Aviation who arrived at the scene of the accident on Saturday morning, said that the provisional death toll was 22, including seven crew members.

ON Friday night, rescuers told Xinhua that 14 others were injured in the accident and were sent to hospitals nearby for treatment.

The aircraft crashed at around 5:30 local time ( 1630 GMT) on Friday during landing in a thunder-storm in Brazzaville. The spokesman for the Congolese police, Allakoua, said Saturday that due to a thunder-storm, the cargo plane failed to land successfully at the airport in Brazzaville and crashed when the pilot tried to take it back.

The plane crashed into a residential area in the Mselou district of Brazzaville, about four kilometers away from the Maya- Maya Airport.

Aimer, a woman resident of Brazzaville whose house is located in the same area where the plane crashed, told Xinhua that everyone was scared.

"We were shocked to see the plane coming down on some houses and all the people shouted and ran away."

"My uncle and nephew were killed," she said.

The Illiouchine aircraft, registered with a local company, Aero-Service, was on a flight from Pointe-Noire, a port city about 500 km southwest of Brazzaville, to the capital city.

Aero-Service was established in 1967 and based in Pointe-Noire. Since November 2009, the EU has banned Aero-Service as well as other companies registered in the country from entering its space.

During the rainy season, the weather in Brazzaville is sometimes very bad. Air-crash takes place almost every year in the African country. Even though the management of the country's civil aviation has improved in recent years and a modern airport was also constructed, it's evident that much more remains to be done.