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Death toll from accident in Nigeria reaches 159.

Six more bodies and one of the black boxes from the Dana Air MD-83 plane, which crashed in the country's economic capital, Lagos, two days ago, have been located.

Death toll from accident in Nigeria reaches 159 (Photo: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)

Agency Brazil – Rescue teams in Nigeria today (5) located six more bodies and one of the black boxes from the Dana Air MD 83 plane that crashed in the country's economic capital, Lagos, two days ago. With the discovery, the number of victims of the air accident that occurred last Sunday (3) rises to 159. The teams were using a crane to remove the ruins of a two-story building hit by the aircraft and, thus, located the bodies.

The director of the Lagos Emergency Relief Agency, Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, said that two bodies were those of passengers and four were residents of the building struck by the plane. All 153 people on board died in the accident.

Authorities in Lagos state have begun identifying residents of homes destroyed by the plane crash and have offered them shelter. Nigerian Civil Defense has not yet ruled out the possibility of more bodies remaining under the rubble.

The plane, which according to initial observations suffered an engine failure, was coming from the country's capital, Abuja, when it crashed in a densely populated neighborhood near Lagos airport. The crash destroyed a warehouse, a house, and a church before the aircraft came to a stop near a residential building.

Among the victims, in addition to Nigerians, are six Chinese, one Indian, one Frenchman, and an as yet unidentified number of Americans. The pilot was American and the co-pilot was Indian.

With information from the French public radio broadcaster, RFI.