Child survives as 103 killed in Libya plane crash
TUNIS. May 13. KAZINFORM A Libyan Airbus plane crashed early on Wednesday on landing at Tripoli airport, killing 103 people on board, most of them Dutch, while a ten-year-old boy was the sole survivor, officials said.
Until now 96 bodies of victims of different nationalities have been found in the air crash in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, the state-run Jana news agency reported.
A ten-year-old Dutch boy survived the crash, and he is now under treatment and in good condition in a Libyan hospital, Libya' s Transport Minister Mohammed Ali Zidan was quoted by Jana as telling a press conference.
The Doha-based al-Jazeera news channel aired a footage showing the sole survivor receiving medical treatment at a Tripoli hospital with his face covered by an oxygen mask. A doctor at the hospital was quoted by the network as saying that the child is suffering several bone fractures in his legs but he is in a stable condition.
An Airbus A330 plane of Libya's Afriqiyah Airways, flying from Johannesburg to Tripoli and carrying 104 people including 11 crew members on board, crashed during the process of landing at about 6: 00 a.m. (0400 GMT), according to airport authorities, Kazinform cites Xinhuanet.
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