Crash survivor yet to be told of family’s fate

THE nine-year-old sole survivor of the Libyan plane crash has not yet been told that his parents and older brother were killed in the crash, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said.

Doctors said Dutch boy Ruben van Assouw was out of danger after surgery on his shattered legs and was able to smile at relatives in his hospital room yesterday.

The family had been on holiday in South Africa to celebrate the parents’ 12-and-a-half-year wedding anniversary – a Dutch tradition.