Algeria plane crash: More than 250 killed in military jet disaster

[TomSea]

Algeria plane crash: More than 250 killed in military jet disaster
Telegraph Reporters 11 April 2018 • 11:14am

The number of people believed to have died in an Algerian military plane crash on Wednesday has risen to 257, according to state TV.

The military transport plane crashed into a field shortly after take off at Boufarik airport, southwest of Algiers.

Television footage showed crowds gathering around the smoking and flaming wreckage near Boufarik airport southwest of Algiers. A line of white body bags could be seen on the ground next to what media said was a Russian Ilyushin transport plane.

Read more at: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/11/algerian-military-plane-crashes-near-capital-killing-several/

[mountaineer]

... Most of the dead are army personnel and their families, according to the defence ministry. Ten crew members were also killed.  ...

The plane, an Ilyushin Il-76, was travelling to Bechar in the south-west of the country.

Among the dead are said to be 26 members of the Polisario Front, seeking independence from Morocco for Western Sahara and supported by Algeria.   ...

More at BBC
Horrible.