According to the defence ministry, not less than 257 people have died after a military plane went down in Northern Algeria
The disaster happened today shortly after the aircraft took off from Boufarik military airport near the capital Algiers.
Most of the dead are army personnel and their families. The ten crew members were also killed.
The cause of the crash is yet to be ascertained.
An investigation into the crash has been ordered by the army's chief of staff.
It is the deadliest plane crash since July 2014, when all 298 people on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 died when it was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
The plane, an Ilyushin Il-76, was travelling to Bechar in the south-west of the country.
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