Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said on Friday that an armed group was present near the site where Air Algerie flight AH5017 crushed in northern Mali on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Lamamra said the first information about the crash site was received from an armed group.<\/p>\n
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, meanwhile, said the most likely cause of Thursday\u2019s crash was bad weather conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think that this plane crashed for reasons pertaining to meteorological conditions,\u201d he said on RTL radio.<\/p>\n
French transportation minister Frederic Cuvillier said the possibility of a strike from the ground had been ruled out \u201cfrom the start,\u201d rejecting speculation that rebels in Mali\u2019s restive north could have shot the plane down.<\/p>\n
In televised address, President Francois Hollande said no one survived the crash, adding that the plane\u2019s black box flight recorder had been found. <\/p>\n
\u201cSadly, there were no survivors\u201d of flight AH5017 that had 116 people on board, including 51 French nationals, Hollande said.<\/p>\n
Ten people from the same family with roots in France\u2019s east died in the Air Algerie crash, local officials and relatives said Friday as the full extent of the tragedy came to light.<\/p>\n
The members of the Reynaud family were on board the plane that crashed Thursday in Mali, the local authorities of the towns some of them lived in and their families confirmed.<\/p>\n
Source: alarabiya.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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