Algeria air crash kills 102 out of 103 on board

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Algeria air crash kills 102

A passenger plane has crashed on take-off in southern Algeria, killing all but one of the 103 people on board.

The sole survivor, a young man believed to be one of the six-person crew, was critically injured, local radio reports said.

Witnesses said one of the engines of the Air Algerie aircraft caught fire as it took off in the remote city of Tamanrasset in the Sahara Desert