Algeria plane crash claims more than 250 lives

An Algerian military transport plane has crashed, killing all 257 on board in the country's worst air disaster with witnesses reporting seeing a wing on fire.

Algeria, Wilaya de Blida:Rescuers and security forces deploy around the wreckage of an Algerian army plane which crashed near the Boufarik airbase from where th Source: Image/CrowdSpark/Omar Seghir

More than 250 people were killed when a military plane crashed near Algeria's capital with witnesses saying they saw a wing catch fire shortly after the plane took off.

Dozens of firefighters, rescue workers and military officials worked around the blackened fuselage of the aircraft, which had been ripped open near its wings.

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