Nigeria crash toll likely to be 159: state government

Lagos: A plane crash in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos is likely to have killed six people in the building hit by the airliner, raising the toll from Nigeria's worst aviation disaster for two decades to 159, the Lagos state government said on Wednesday.
The privately owned Dana Air flight, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, smashed into an apartment block in a densely populated Lagos suburb on Sunday afternoon, killing all 153 people onboard and an unknown number of people on the ground.
Because many bodies were fragmented or burnt beyond recognition, distinguishing the passengers from other victims has proven difficult, officials say.
Authorities had done a survey of the building and the surrounding houses and found six people missing, said Oke Osanyintolu, of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency.
06/06/12 Chijioke Ohuocha and Oludare Mayowa/Reuters

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