Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial Crash Site marks the place of the plane crash in which Dag Hammarskjöld , the second and then-sitting United Nations Secretary General 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 from Ndola , in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia
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1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash
Dag Hammarskjöld Crash Site Memorial