Morocco Military C-130 Crash,Leave 78 dead

[GHOST RIDER]

A military plane crash in a remote mountainous region of Morocco killed at least 78 people and seriously injured three on Tuesday, according to the North African nation's official news agency.

The C-130 transport plane carried 60 soldiers, nine crew members and a dozen civilians and was preparing to land at an airport near the border with the disputed region of Western Sahara, according to local media reports. The wounded were taken to a military hospital in the nearby city of Guelmim while a search of the site continued, the Maghreb Arabe Presse agency reported.

Amateur video footage broadcast on Arab television appeared to show the blackened remains of the plane across the side of a mountain.

According to a statement by Morocco's Royal Armed Forces, bad weather caused the crash, described as one of the deadliest aviation accidents in recent Moroccan history.

The news agency said the plane was transporting troops either to or from Laayoune and Dakhla, both cities in Western Sahara, a sparsely populated desert coastal territory 100 miles south of the crash site.

The vast coastal region has been the site of a 36-year insurgency waged by Polisario separatists seeking autonomy from Morocco, which claims the territory as its own.

Those Who died may there souls Rest In Peace

 

[kartika]

r.i.p to the dead

 

[REEVER]

you should warn of graphic images before posting the one with the bodies its a tragedy, the description alone is enough to paint a bleak image thank you.