Ethiopia will observe a national day of mourning on Monday as investigators search for bodies and clues into the crash of a Nairobi-bound Boeing.
perished when Flight ET 302 ploughed into a field near Tulu Fara village outside the town of Bishoftu, some 60 kilometres southeast of Addis Ababa.One passenger missed deadly Ethiopian flight
A local farmer, Sisay Gemechu, said:"The plane seemed to be aiming to land at a nearby level open field, but crashed before reaching there." Many were headed for an annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme, which opens in Nairobi on Monday with some 4,700 heads of state, ministers, business leaders, senior UN officials and civil society representatives.Ethiopian Airlines, the continent's biggest carrier, said"the search will continue in the morning".
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