Moroccan military plane crash claims 78 lives

At least 78 people were killed when a Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the military said.

The military said there were three injured survivors so far from the crash, which happened when a Hercules C-130 aircraft tried to land in Guelmim, having flown north from the disputed Western Sahara territory.

The crash is Morocco’s worst known air disaster since 1973, when 105 people were killed after a Royal Air Maroc aircraft crashed near the capital Rabat.