In Algeria, a military aircraft crashed. Sources of the Algerian media claim that there were at least one hundred people on board, none of them survived. Information about the dead is being clarified.
The plane fell near a military base near the town of Bufarik, the local state radio reports. Not less than one hundred dead are claimed.
The military transport Il-76 fell shortly after take-off from the airfield of the military base in Bufarik 50 km south of the country's capital - Algeria.
It happened around 08:00 local time. Immediately after the fall, the board caught fire and a fire broke out. The causes of the disaster are unknown.
The photographs, published by the Algeria News agency, show fragments of the plane and thick smoke.
The source of the TV channel Al-Hadas said that there are no survivors. The source of the Al Arabiya agency also said that no one survived.
According to the agency, the aircraft was sent from the north of the country from the province of Blida to the southwest. Most of the passengers were servicemen.
Ambulance carriages were sent to the scene. The traffic on nearby roads is blocked.
Bufarik is a commune in the north of Algeria, located 35 km from Algiers, the capital of the North African state.
In 2014, in the north-east of Algeria, in the province of Oum el Buaji, the Lockheed C-130 military airliner Hercules crashed. The plane crashed into the mountain range in bad weather conditions. 77 people were killed, one of the survivors survived.
In 2011, near the village of Guelmim in Morocco, a military transport aircraft of the Moroccan Air Force crashed. Out of 82 people on board, including 60 military men, only one managed to survive.
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