Wreckage, remains from missing flight found, says official
Posted Jul 24, 2014 06:38:34 PM.
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ALGIERS, Algeria – A Burkina Faso official says the wreckage of the Air Algerie plane that went missing has been found in Mali.
The Air Algerie jetliner carried 116 people _ including five Canadians, officials have said.
Gen. Gilbert Diendere says the wreckage was located about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the border of Burkina Faso near the village of Boulikessi in Mali.
Diendere is a close aide to President Blaise Compaore and head of the crisis committee set up to co-ordinate research for the plane that vanished Thursday in a rainstorm over northern Mali.
He says searchers found human remains and burned and scattered plane wreckage.
(The Associated Press)
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