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14/05/2010
Plane Crash Kills Irish/SA National
A top South Africian author, Bree O'Mara is one of at least 10 people from the counrty who died in a plane crash in Libya on Wednesday.
Ms O'Mara, who also had Irish nationality, was reportedly on her way to London to sign a second book deal.
She is among 103 people killed when the plane from Johannesburg's OR Tambo Airport travelling to London's Gatwick Airport via Libya exploded on impact in Tripoli.
Authorities have not yet released the full list of South African victims.
The only survivor when the plane crashed as it came in to land at Tripoli airport was a nine-year-old Dutch boy.
(BMcC/GK)
Ms O'Mara, who also had Irish nationality, was reportedly on her way to London to sign a second book deal.
She is among 103 people killed when the plane from Johannesburg's OR Tambo Airport travelling to London's Gatwick Airport via Libya exploded on impact in Tripoli.
Authorities have not yet released the full list of South African victims.
The only survivor when the plane crashed as it came in to land at Tripoli airport was a nine-year-old Dutch boy.
(BMcC/GK)
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