Boy survives as 103 killed in Libya plane crash

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Job-seekers, who came to appear for a test at ASA, vandalised the ASA Tower at Shyamoli in the city Friday, after finding no seating arrangement. — FE Photo

TRIPOLI, May 12 (AFP): A Libyan plane arriving from South Africa disintegrated on landing at Tripoli airport Wednesday, killing 103 people but leaving an eight-year-old boy as the sole miracle survivor, officials said.
Sixty-one Dutch citizens were killed in the crash, the Dutch tourism federation ANWB said, while Libyan Transport Minister Mohammed Ali Zidan listed "Libyans, Africans and Europeans" as among the dead.
Zidan told a media conference that an inquiry was under way to determine what caused the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330 to break up massively as it was landing, but he ruled out terrorism.
Libyan television showed teams of emergency workers wearing face masks sifting through the wreckage of the plane, which was scattered in a wide arc across the landing area.
"There were 104 people on board -- 93 passengers and 11 crew members," Zidan said, adding that the remains of 96 victims had already been recovered.
There was only one survivor, an eight-year-old Dutch boy who was being treated in hospital, he said.
The Dutch foreign ministry said the boy was undergoing surgery at a Tripoli hospital for broken bones.
"He is being operated on for fractures from the crash," ministry spokeswoman Ozlem Canel told AFP in The Hague.
"We don't know how serious his injuries are. We know he is being operated on for fractures," she said.
Canel said the government could not confirm that the boy was, indeed, Dutch.