Nigeria plane crash toll up to 106 as survivors die

  • 12/15/2022
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Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Dec 12, SPA -- Two more survivors of a plane crash in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt have died, a state government spokesman said on Monday, raising the death toll to 106 of whom about half were children. Seven of the 109 people on board the Sosoliso flight, which crash landed and burst into flames at Port Harcourt airport on Saturday, were pulled from the wreckage alive, but two of them died early on Sunday and two more died later in the day. "There are now three survivors. One is being treated at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital and two are at the Shell clinic," said Blessing Nwikinna, a spokesman for the government of Rivers state, where Port Harcourt is located. The flight from the capital Abuja to the oil city in the Niger Delta crashed as it was trying to land during a storm, according to witnesses. Civil aviation officials said on Saturday it missed the runway in bad weather, according to a report of Reuters. --SPA 1349 Local Time 1049 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/309960

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