Hanoi (VNA) – President Tran Dai Quang on April 13cabled a message of condolences to his Algerian counterpart AbdelazizBouteflika over a recent military plane crash which claimed many lives.
An Algerian airplane carrying mostly soldiers crashed nearthe Boufarik airbase outside Algeria’s capital, Algiers, on April 11.
The aircraft went down shortly after takeoff, killing atleast 257 people aboard.-VNA