More than 60 Dutch nationals and nine South Africans died in the plane crash that killed 103 people near the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the Star newspaper has reported.
Libyan Transport Minister Mohammed Ali Zidan said the dead included nationals of nine countries but that a full 61 came from the Netherlands, which ordered flags on government buildings flown at half-mast as a mark of respect.
Writer Bree O'Mara, author of the award-winning novel "Home Affairs", was among those killed when a Libyan airliner crashed Wednesday, said the Star.
She was reportedly on her way to London to sign a second book deal.
The brother of parliament member Anchen Dreyer also died when the Afriqiyah Airways plane disintegrated just shy of the runway, Dreyer's opposition Democratic Alliance party said in a statement.
Authorities have not yet released the death toll of South African victims.
The Airbus A330, which left from Johannesburg, had 104 people on board when it crashed Wednesday around 6:00 am in Tripoli.
The only survivor was an eight-year-old Dutch boy.
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