A father and daughter were killed when their plane crashed soon after takeoff in Florida on Monday, authorities have said, as the pair were travelling to deliver supplies to hurricane-stricken communities in Jamaica.

Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter Serena, 22, died when the Beechcraft King Air plane he was flying went down into a lake in a residential area in Coral Springs, a city north of Miami, after taking off from Fort Lauderdale. The moment of impact was caught on security cameras and showed the plane breaking apart.

Wurm was the founder of the evangelical Christian ministry Ignite the Fire, which was active in the Caribbean including the Cayman Islands and had already carried out aid deliveries to Jamaica.

At least 67 people were killed by Hurricane Melissa, including 28 in

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