Nigeria mourns victims of airline disaster

Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan on Monday declared three days of national mourning for the victims of Sunday’s deadly airline crash in southern Nigeria.

Emergency personnel worked through the night to put out fires and to search for the bodies of the passengers who were on board the aircraft when it went down. The commercial airliner, owned by Dana Air, was en route from the Nigerian capital of Abuja to the city of Lagos when its pilots reported of engine trouble. The plane then crashed into businesses and residential buildings near the Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport. All 153 passengers on board the airliner were killed, and officials are concerned that many more may have died at the crash site.


Listen to Ann Schneible’s report: