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Dag Hammarskjold Memorial

Ndola, Zambia

Dag Hammarskjold Memorial

The Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial Crash Site marks the place of the plane crash in which Dag Hammarskjöld, the second and then-sitting Secretary-General of the United Nations was killed on 17 September 1961, while on a mission to the Léopoldville Congo Republic (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

. The site is located 10 km west of Ndola, in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia.

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