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Algeria plane crash: More than 250 killed in military jet disasterTelegraph Reporters 11 April 2018 • 11:14amThe 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/
... 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. ...