If God wants to save some one nothing can kill, and its happened once again as The Libyan transport minister said an eight-year-old Dutch national was the sole survivor after Afriqiyah Airways' Airbus-330 arriving from South Africa crashed on Wednesday morning.
Mohamed Ali Zidan said the boy was being treated in hospital but did not have life-threatening injuries.

Spokesman Ad Meijer said the identity of the child was still being verified. He said the boy was being operated for injuries, including broken bones.

"There were 104 people on board - 93 passengers and 11 crew members," Zidan told a news conference, adding that the remains of 96 victims had already been recovered.

He said Libyans, Africans and Europeans had been on board.

Reuters pictures from the crash site showed the ground carpeted with small pieces of debris from the plane and passengers' personal effects, including a Dutch-language guide book to South Africa.

Only the tail fin, decorated with Afriqiyah Airways' red, green and yellow insignia, was more or less intact, standing upright but leaning at an angle.

A Reuters reporter at the airport said ambulances were taking bodies of the victims to hospital mortuaries.


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Scores dead in Libya plane crash
Rescue workers were examining the wreckage after the plane crashed just off the runway [AFP]

Up to 103 people have been killed in a plane crash at the airport in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

The Libyan transport minister said an eight-year-old Dutch national was the sole survivor after Afriqiyah Airways' Airbus-330 arriving from South Africa crashed on Wednesday morning.

Mohamed Ali Zidan said the boy was being treated in hospital but did not have life-threatening injuries.

"There were 104 people on board - 93 passengers and 11 crew members," Zidan told a news conference, adding that the remains of 96 victims had already been recovered.

He said Libyans, Africans and Europeans had been on board.

'No terror act'

"We have definitely ruled out the theory that the crash was the result of an act of terrorism," Zidan said.

Libya's Afriqiyah Airways said the aircraft was coming in to land when it crashed just one metre off the runway.

Libyan state television showed footage of a large field scattered with small and large pieces of plane debris and dozens of police and rescue workers with surgical masks and gloves.

Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch prime minister, said "several dozen" Dutch citizens died in the accident.

The Dutch tourism federation said 61 Dutch nationals had been on board the plane, travelling in two separate organised tour
groups with a stopover in Tripoli.



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