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Family members of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were among four people killed in a private jet crash in southern England, a Saudi ambassador said.
Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Bin Abdel-Aziz, the Saudi ambassador to the United Kingdom, offered his condolences to the wealthy bin Laden family, which owns a major construction company in Saudi Arabia.
"The embassy will follow up on the incident and its circumstances with the concerned British authorities and work on speeding up the handover of the bodies of the victims to the kingdom for prayer and burial," the ambassador said.
Police say a pilot and three passengers died when an executive jet crashed into dozens of vehicles at a car auction site close to the runway and burst into flames while trying to land at Blackbushe Airport in southern England on Friday afternoon. The plane had been flying from Malpensa Airport in Milan.
According to NBC, the passengers were Rajaa Hashim, Osama's stepmother; Sana bin Laden, his half-sister, and her husband Zuhair Hashim. The pilot had yet to be identified.
No one on the ground was hurt. Police and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch launched a joint investigation.
WATCH: Raw footage (unverified) shown by British media of the fiery plane wreckage

Blackbushe Airport said the Embraer Phenom 300 jet crashed near the end of the runway while trying to land at the airfield about 65km southwest of London, which is used by private planes and flying clubs.
Andrew Thomas, who was at a car auction sales centre based at the airport, told the BBC that "the plane nosedived into the cars and exploded on impact". He said he saw the plane and several cars in flames.
The bin Laden family disowned Osama in 1994 when Saudi Arabia stripped him of his citizenship because of his militant activities. The al-Qaeda leader was killed by US special forces in Pakistan in 2011.
The family is a large and wealthy one. Osama bin Laden's billionaire father Mohammed had more than 50 children and founded the Binladen Group, a sprawling construction conglomerate awarded many major building contracts in the Sunni kingdom.
Mohammed bin Laden died in a plane crash in Saudi Arabia in 1967. One of his sons, Salem, was killed when his ultralight aircraft flew into power lines in San Antonio, Texas, in 1988.


Bin Laden family members among jet crash victims in southern England