'Scores killed' in Algeria army plane crash
C-130 Hercules aircraft crashes in mountainous area 350km east of Algiers killing 103 people, local radio reports.
A military transport plane has crashed in eastern Algeria, killing 103 people, an Algerian security source has said.
The plane, a C-130 Hercules aircraft, was reportedly flying "in poor
weather conditions" and crashed into Djebel Fertas mountain shortly
before it was to land in Constantine, the report said.
A senior military official told the official APS news agency that 99
passengers and four crew members had been on board the plane, but that
the death toll was "yet to be determined".
Colonel Lahmadi Bouguern also said that bad weather and gusty winds were probably the cause of the crash.
The transport plane took off from Algeria's southern Tamanrasset
province and was bound for the eastern city of Constantine, 350km east
of Algiers, Reuters said.
Witnesses in the area told the Associated Press news agency that the plane clipped a mountain and then crashed.
Tuesday's plane crash would be the worst in Algeria since 2003 when
an Air Algerie jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Tamanrasset,
killing 102 people.
In November 2012, an Algerian military cargo plane crashed in southern France, killing all six people aboard.
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