Amid national mourning,
the bodies of 20 Lebanese, including 10 children, killed in the summer
plane crash in Mali will arrive to Lebanon Sunday afternoon.
On
July 24, the wreck of an Air Algerie plane that went missing with 116
people on board was found in Mali near the Burkina Faso border.
Twenty Lebanese nationals were on the flight, including three couples with 10 children.
Lebanese
Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil and Director-General of the Department
of Emigrants in the ministry, Haitham Jomaa, will accompany the coffins
that are expected to arrive from Paris to Beirut at 06:30 pm local time
(16:30 GMT). An official reception ceremony will be held at the airport.
The Lebanese on board the flight were:
Randa
Basma Daher and her three kids Ali, 17, Salah, 15 and Saymaa, 5, Monji
Hasan and his wife Najwa and their four kids, Bilal Dheini and his wife
and their three kids, Joseph Jerjes al-Hajj, Fadi Rustom and his
son-in-law Omar al-Ballan, Mohammed Akhdar, and Fady Sioufi.
Air
Algerie's last major accident was in 2003 when one of its planes crashed
shortly after take-off from the southern city of Tamanrasset, killing
102 people.
In February this year, 77 people died when an Algerian military transport plane crashed into a mountain in eastern Algeria.
Source: http://www.albawaba.com
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