Congo ? Congo fired its transport minister Friday as emergency workers extinguished the last flames from a plane crash in the capital and found still more bodies in the wreckage. The death toll climbed to at least 50, officials said.

Saleh Kinyongo, spokesman for Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry, said 28 bodies had been retrieved so far, all of them residents of the neighborhood where the plane crashed. Twenty-two passengers on the flight were presumed dead, he said.

The cargo plane slammed into three houses Thursday just after taking off from Kinshasa’s international airport on a flight to central Congo. Six homes were destroyed in either the crash or the conflagration that burned until early Friday, the humanitarian affairs ministry said.

A government spokesman announced the firing of Transport Minister Remy Kuseyo’s on state television, but did not say if Kuseyo was accused of wrongdoing or negligence.