Plane crash in Tunisia kills 11

A medical plane transporting patients from Libya has crashed in Tunisia, killing all 11 people on board.

All 11 people on board a Libyan medical plane have been killed in a crash northwest of the Tunisian capital.

The plane was carrying two patients to Tunis for treatment, Libyan Transport Minister Abdelqader Mohammed says.

Also aboard the Soviet-made Antonov 26 were three physicians and six crew members, a Tunisian official spokesman says.

The aircraft took off from a military airfield near Tripoli on Friday.

One of the patients, Meftah al-Mabrouk Issa al-Dhawadi, was a former jihadist who served in Libya's first transitional government following the fall of the Gadhafi regime in October 2011.

Dhawadi, who spent 18 years in a Libyan prison after taking part in guerrilla campaigns against Gadhafi in the mid-1990s, was released shortly before the February 2011 uprising.

The plane went down after one of the engines burst into flames, a Libyan military source said.


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