Plane crash kills at least 8 at Nigeria airport Associated Airline plane reportedly carrying Agagu’s corpse crashes in Lagos

Associated Airline plane reportedly carrying Agagu’s corpse crashes in Lagos

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Plane crash kills at least 8 at Nigeria airport 

A charter plane crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday morning killing at least eight people, the country's emergency management agency said in a post on Twitter. One survivor was found at the site.The agency had previously reported that 11 had died in the mishap and four were taken to hospital.

According to those present around the scene, the crash happened at the local wing of the airport, close to the section where JET-A1, plane fuel is stored.

As at the time of filing in this report, fire service officials were seen evacuating the occupants of the plane and it is not yet clear if there is any casualty.

NEMA has confirmed that two people died when a charter plane , owned by associated airlines crashed behind Con-oil tank farm, just few meters away from the airport, in Lagos.

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Unconfirmed reports say the Akure bound plane, was alleged to be carryiny the former Governor of Ondo State Olusegun Agagu, who died last month. He is to be buried tomorrow.

Twenty people were said to be on board the Akure-bound flight. Meanwhile,the National Emergency Management Agency,NEMA, has confirmed two people were killed in the crash. 

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Yakubu Datti, the spokesman of the Nigeria aviation agencies, has asked for more time to get concrete details of the accident.

However, Segun Demuren, the son of Harold Demuren, who was the immediate former Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, has tweeted his own account of the crash:

Here is a picture that was reportedly taken at the scene:

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