ALGIERS: A military aircraft carrying 78 people crashed in Algeria’s mountainous northeast on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila), leaving just one survivor in one of the country’s deadliest air disasters, the defense ministry said.

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced three days of national mourning to begin on Wednesday, praising the soldiers who perished in the crash as “martyrs.”

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