BAEZ, Cuba - (AP) -- Divers pulled the bodies of 16 people -- among them a dozen foreigners, including two
                      small Canadian children -- from a small reservoir in central Cuba as officials from the victims' homelands worked
                      Friday to confirm identities of those killed when a small Soviet-made biplane crashed in this rural region.

                      The plane, a single-engine Antonov AN-2, went down around 4:30 p.m. local time Thursday in this small
                      community just south of Santa Clara, the capital of Villa Clara province about 165 miles east of Havana.

                      The Cuban government early Friday released a list of 12 foreigners killed: a German couple, six Canadians
                      including two children ages 5 and 6, and four Britons.

                      Also killed were four Cubans, authorities said. There were no survivors.

                      Still unknown by Friday afternoon was why the small chartered plane went down during a flight from the central
                      city of Cienfuegos to Cayo Coco, a resort in the keys stretching along the main island's northern coast, where all
                      the victims were staying.

                      Metal parts and other debris from the plane were scattered across the yards of the modest farm homes near the
                      reservoir, suggesting the craft was falling apart as it went down. The small, man-made reservoir is used to
                      irrigate crops in the region.

                      Divers using two small boats retrieved remains and plane wreckage from the water on Friday morning as more
                      than 100 Cuban officials representing the police, firefighters, military, and Communist Party surrounded the area
                      around the reservoir. Seven funeral cars carrying caskets left the area around daybreak.

                      Fire trucks, cranes and other emergency vehicles moved around the reservoir across rolling hills dotted with farm
                      homes, crops and the local cemetery. A military helicopter buzzed overhead.

                      Farmer Ramón Sampiero said he was feeding his pigs when he saw the plane start to lower in the sky over this
                      agricultural community of 7,000 residents.

                      ''I saw it fly very low, but did not hear it crash,'' Sampiero, 65, said early Friday.