A Nigerian charter plane with 20 people on board has crash-landed shortly after taking off from Lagos, killing at least 14 people.
The aircraft, made by the Brazilian firm Embraer and operated by Nigeria's Associated Airlines, took off at 9.30am from Lagos's Murtala Mohammed International Airport.
The flight, destined for Akure in Ondo state (southwest), crashed two minutes after takeoff with 13 passengers and seven crew on board, according to the aviation ministry.
There were "six survivors and 14 fatalities", Aviation Minister Stella Oduah said in a statement.
An official from the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency told AFP the cause of the crash was engine failure and the plane burst into flames after hitting the ground.
The plummeting aircraft narrowly missed a series of large, fuel-laden containers that lie between the international and domestic terminals, ultimately crashing in a muddy area, an AFP reporter said.
Rescue workers and firefighters combed through the charred and scattered fuselage, some of which was embedded in the heavy mud.
The aircraft's black box had been located and handed over to aviation officials, Yakubu Dati, an aviation ministry spokesman at the scene told AFP.
The plane was carrying the remains of ex-Ondo state governor Olusegun Agagu, who had been set for burial this weekend, Joe Obi, the aviation ministry spokesman told AFP.
Reports were also circulating in Nigeria's media about other prominent figures who may have perished in the crash, but details could not be confirmed.
"We will make the identities of the victims public" after their families have been informed, said the aviation minister.
The accident came more than a year after a plane belonging to another domestic carrier, Dana Air, crashed following an engine failure as it approached Lagos on a flight that originated in the capital Abuja.
All the 153 people on board were killed, along with six others on the ground as the plane plunged into a densely packed residential neighbourhood, destroying a three-story building in June of last year.
