BREAKING NEWS: Plane crashes at Lagos Airport

An Akure-bound Associated Airline plane has just exploded at the Murtala Mohammed domestic Airport.

Fire service officials were seen evacuating the occupants of the plane.


It is not yet clear if there was any casualty.

The spokesman of the Nigeria aviation agencies, Yakubu Datti, asked for more time to get details of the incident.

More details later…


UPDATE:
The plane, conveying 20 people to Akure suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff, crash-land, then catch fire. 

UPDATE:
The plane was carrying the corpse of the late former Ondo State governor Olusegun Agagu, his family members and friends


UPDATE:
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