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October 27, 2005

Nigeria service at air crash site

A short inter-denominational Christian service is taking place for the victims of Saturday's air crash in which all 117 people on board were killed.

President Olusegun Obasanjo is attending the service at the crash site at Lissa, just north of Lagos.

The Bellview Airlines Boeing 737 bound for the capital Abuja came down shortly after taking off from Lagos.

The cause of the crash has yet to be established, and a team of United States air investigators has arrived.

The American team to assist in the probe includes representatives of the Boeing Corporation and members of the US National Transportation Safety Board.

Hundreds of mourners have gathered for the service united in grief, says the BBC's reporter there Sola Odunfa.

On Wednesday, Nigeria observed a one minute's silence but the BBC's Jamilah Tangaza in Abuja said the observance appeared to have little impact on the streets of the capital.

Meanwhile, a police spokesman has said he does not believe reports that a previously unknown group from the Niger Delta brought down the plane.

The Coalition for Militant Action in the Niger Delta sent a statement on Tuesday to a number of newspapers taking what it called "full responsibility" for the crash and demanding the release of a separatist Niger Delta militia leader, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, who is on trial for treason.

"It's not real. If people planned it, the statement would have been out before now," the police spokesman Haz Iwendi told Nigeria's Comet newspaper.

Investigators have been combing the crash site looking for clues.

Security on domestic flights in Nigeria is lax, no photo ID is required and passengers can turn up to an airport and buy their ticket on the day of travel.

The pilot of Bellview Airlines flight 210 reportedly sent a distress signal just after taking off from Lagos for the capital, Abuja, in stormy weather at 2045 local time (1945 GMT) on Saturday.

Bellview said the 24-year-old plane had been given a clean bill of health by safety inspectors in February.


Posted by Publisher at October 27, 2005 02:49 PM

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