Algerian Military Plane Crash Kills 250
- 6 years ago
ALGIERS (Reuters) - More than 250 people were killed when a military plane crashed in a field outside Algeria’s capital on Wednesday, state media said, in the country’s worst air disaster. Television footage showed crowds and emergency vehicles massing around the smoking and flaming wreckage near Boufarik airport southwest of Algiers. A total of 257 people were killed, most of them military, the defence ministry said.