A Libyan military plane has crashed near the capital of Tunisia. The plane was carrying five Libyan patients to Tunisia for treatment. All 11 people on board were killed, including a Libyan government official and six crew.
The aircraft crashed after the pilot tried to land in farmland south of Tunis.
The Libyan official who died was Sheikh Meftah Daouadi, the under-secretary of the "Libyan Ministry of Martyrs".
It's the second crash involving a military plane in North Africa in two weeks. On February 11th, an Algerian military transport plane crashed into a mountain in bad weather, killing 77 people.
People check the crash site of a Libyan military medical plane in Grombalia city, south of the capital Tunis, in Nabeul governorate, Tunisia, Feb. 21, 2014. (Xinhua/Adher)
