THIS HOW IT ALL HAPPENED IN NIGERIA
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
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danielmjema.blogspot.com
A
commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in
Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and
others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for
the troubled nation.The
cause of the Dana Air crash in Lagos remained unknown Sunday night, as
firefighters and police struggled to put out the flames around the
wreckage of the Boeing MD83 aircraft. Authorities could not control the
crowd of thousands gathered around to see the crash site, with some
crawling over the plane's broken wings and standing on still-smouldering
landing gear.
People
gather near the engine of a plane after it crashed into a neighbourhood
in Ishaga district, an outskirt of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos
on June 3
Rescue officials feared many others were killed or injured on the ground, but no casualty figures were immediately available
local
residents were seen carrying the corpse of a man from one building, its
walls still crumbling and flames shooting from its roof more than an
hour after the crash
An
airliner carrying 153 people crashed on Sunday, June 3, in a
residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria's most populated city. There
were no survivors.
Firefighters
work at the scene of the crash. The Dana Air flight from Abuja plunged
into a building several miles from the airport in Lagos
Residents help carry a firehose as hundreds congregate around the crash site.
A helicopter hovers over the neighborhood in Lagos. Throngs of people flocked to the area despite debris, fires and thick smoke
Rescuers carry the remains of a victim to an ambulance on Sunday. A number of people on the ground were also killed.
Soldiers disperse onlookers near the site of the crash.
It
was so hot, we couldn't get close because of the fire," Green-Adebo
said. "I just kept thinking about the people, if there was anyone in
there."
The largThe
search for bodies and, hopefully, survivors in Nigeria's most populated
city continued through the night and into Monday, hours after an
airliner crashed killing all 153 passengers and crew on board and at
least 10 people on the crowds were too much to handle..
e ground.
Mohammed
Sani Sidi, director general of the West African nation's National
Emergency Management Agency -- who had conceded late Sunday there were
no survivors on the Dana Air flight -- said early Monday that
individuals in the Lagos neighborhood when and where the jet hit also
had died.
R.I.P
TO ALL THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES ON THIS TRAGETY INCIDENT, MAY THE
LORD HEAL THE PAIN OF THE FAMILY WHO LOST THE LOVED ONES
Habari Zingine
Mjulishe Mwenzako
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