Libya Air Crash

 
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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.

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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...[Full story

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