Dutch survivor of Libyan air crash to return home Saturday: Ministry

"The Dutch boy Ruben... will be brought back to the Netherlands on Saturday May 15," a statement by the ministry said.

During his trip home, Ruben will be accompanied by his aunt and uncle, who arrived Thursday in Libya, and an attending physician, the release said.

"At the request of Ruben's relatives, the place where the plane will land (in the Netherlands) will not be divulged and the media will not be given the opportunity to be present when it arrives," the statement said, while just saying that the plane will leave Tripoli at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT).

Ruben's relatives "appealed to the media to exercise restrain and to leave Ruben and his family in peace at this difficult time, " the ministry added.

The boy was identified by Dutch press media as nine-year-old Ruben van Assouw who was with his father Patrick, 40, mother Trudy, 41, and brother Enzo, 11, aboard the ill-fated plane after a safari trip in South Africa.

The Airbus A330 was completing a more than seven-hour flight across the African continent from Johannesburg, South Africa, when it crashed on landing in the Libyan capital, which killed 103 passengers on board leaving the Dutch boy as the sole survivor; Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.news.xinhuanet.com for full version.