At least one Nigerian has been reported to be on board the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed six minutes after take-off in Ethiopia Sunday morning.
According to a manifest posted on the twitter handle of MarthaLeah Nangalama (@mlnangalama), an airline agent, nationals of Kenya, Canada, Ethiopia, United States of America, and China were on board the tragic plane.
MarthaLeah Nangalama (@mlnangalama) tweeted:
Ethiopian Airlines – list of the dead per country that was on board the plane:
Kenyan-32, Canadians-18, Ethiopians-9, USA-8, Chinese-8, Nigerian-1
Meanwhile, the authorities have reported some deaths and there were no talks about survivors, even as the nationalities of two passengers on board remained unknown.