President expresses condolences over Algerian Airlines Flight Crash
The Source: SANA'A\Hadhramaut\Saba - Saturday -26/JULY/2014
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President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi sent of Friday cables of condolences to President Abdul Aziz Bouteflika of Algeria, President Francois Hollande of France and government of Lebanon on the victims of Algerian Airlines flight crash, which went down on Thursday in Mali. In his cables, President Hadi expressed his grief condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims and people of their countries.
On Thursday, Algerian Flight 5017 crashed in the Gossi region near the border with Burkina Faso, with 118 people on board.
The passengers included 51 French, 27 Burkina Faso nationals, eight Lebanese, six Algerians, five Canadians, four Germans, two Luxembourg nationals, one Swiss, one Belgian, one Egyptian, one Ukrainian, one Nigerian, one Cameroonian and one Malian.
Earlier, officials in Burkina Faso said human remains and the burnt wreckage had been found about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the border of Burkina Faso near the Malian village of Boulikessi.
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