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Algerians mourn victims of deadly military plane crash

Mourners carry a coffin containing the body of one of the victims of an Algerian military plane crash, during a funeral in Algiers, Algeria. (Reuters)

Algerians, many of them weeping, queued at a hospital on Thursday to identify the victims of the country’s worst plane disaster which killed 257 people.

The Russian Ilyushin Il-76 military transporter crashed on Wednesday after takeoff from the Boufarik air base southwest of Algiers. Witnesses said a wing had caught fire.

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