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| Military Plane Crashes in Algeria, Killing at Least 100 | Military Plane Crashes in Algeria, Killing at Least 100 |
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| CAIRO — At least 100 passengers died when an Algerian military transport plane slammed into a field shortly after takeoff near the capital on Wednesday, Algeria’s state media said. | |
| Emergency services rushed to the crash site, near a military base in Boufarik, about 15 miles southwest of Algiers. Video footage taken shortly after the crash showed clouds of smoke billowing from an area near the runway. | |
| Local news reports said the plane had been carrying as many as 200 soldiers when it crashed just after 8 a.m. The Russian-built Ilyushin Il-76 transporter was bound for Bechar, in the southwest of the country. | Local news reports said the plane had been carrying as many as 200 soldiers when it crashed just after 8 a.m. The Russian-built Ilyushin Il-76 transporter was bound for Bechar, in the southwest of the country. |
| The cause of the crash was unclear and is under investigation, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. It did not provide a death toll. | |
| In 2014, an Algerian military transport plane carrying 78 people crashed into a mountain in the northeastern province of Oum El Bouaghi. One person survived. | In 2014, an Algerian military transport plane carrying 78 people crashed into a mountain in the northeastern province of Oum El Bouaghi. One person survived. |
| Six people died when an Algerian Air Force C-130 crashed into a hillside in France in November 2012. |