No survivors found
A military aircraft crashed in the east of the country on Tuesday killing all 103 people on board, an Algerian security source told AFP.
The C-130 Hercules aircraft, which was flying to the eastern city of Constantine crashed “in poor weather conditions” in Oum El Bouaghi, around 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of the capital, Algerian radio station Ennahar said.
The plane was carrying 99 passengers — soldiers and their families — as well as four crew members, the source told AFP.
“There were no survivors,” the source added.
Ennahar’s source said contact was lost with the military plane between Constantine and Oum al-Bouaghi.
Ennahar reported that ambulances had been dispatched to the crash zone, which is some 380km (240 miles) east of the capital Algiers.
An Air Algerie Boeing 737 crashed on take-off from Tamanrasset in 2003, killing all but one of the 103 people on board.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
