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Mansour: 2 Lebanese Killed in Nigeria Plane Crash

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour confirmed on Monday that two Lebanese were among the dead in the plane crash in Nigeria’s largest city.

One of the victims, a contractor, is from the Awad family, Mansour told Voice of Lebanon radio station (93.3).

The other is an engineer from the Chidiac family, he said.

The victims were later identified as Roger Awad and Nadine Chidiac.

Mansour did not confirm whether the bodies would be transported to Lebanon for burial.

The commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Lagos on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground.

The cause of the Dana Air crash remained unknown on Monday.


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