{"id":27746,"date":"2018-04-12T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T11:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=27746"},"modified":"2018-04-12T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T11:46:29","slug":"at-least-257-killed-in-algerian-military-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/at-least-257-killed-in-algerian-military-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 257 killed in Algerian military plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algiers<\/p>\n<p>At least 257 people were killed when a military plane crashed soon after takeoff in a farm field in northern Algeria on Wednesday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash was unclear, and an investigation has been opened, according to a Defense Ministry statement.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services converged on the area near the Boufarik military base after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are more than 100 deaths. We can\u2019t say exact how many at this point,\u201d Mohammed Achour, chief spokesman for the civil protection agency, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>He said the plane was carrying soldiers. The Defense Ministry did not provide a death toll but expressed condolences to the victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n<p>The flight had just taken off from Boufarik, about 30 kilometres southwest of the capital Algiers, for a military base in Bechar in southwest Algeria, Achour said.<\/p>\n<p>It was scheduled to make a layover in Tindouf in southern Algeria, home to many refugees from the neighbouring Western Sahara, a disputed territory annexed by Morocco.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algiers At least 257 people were killed when a military plane crashed soon after takeoff in a farm field in northern Algeria on Wednesday, officials said. The cause of the crash was unclear, and an investigation has been opened, according to a Defense Ministry statement. Emergency services converged on the area near the Boufarik military [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27748,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions\/27748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}