A Nigerian plane with 39 people on board, including a Nigerian soccer team, crashed in southern Algeria Sunday, killing four people and injuring 24 others.
The plane crashed at Tamanrasset's airport in the Sahara desert about 1,250 miles south of Algiers, according to the Algerian Transport Ministry.An earlier report by Algeria's Channel 3 radio had said 13 were killed and 13 injured.
The plane's pilot, copilot and a flight attendant were killed, along with a member of the Nigerian soccer squad Iwanwanyu Nationale, medical sources in Tamanrasset said.
The plane was carrying 32 team members and a crew of seven.
The aircraft was flying from Tunis, Tunisia, to the Nigerian capital of Lagos. Poor visibility was probably a factor in the plane's crash, airport officials said.
The plane crashed on landing at airport, hitting a runway lamp pylon and a firetruck, according to witnesses. The plane was completely destroyed, they said.
Iwanwanyu Nationale, one of Nigeria's strongest soccer teams and national champion in 1993, was returning from a match in Tunis where it lost 3-0 to Tunis' Esperance team in an African Cup match.
The team lost the final of the 1988 African Cup to an Algerian squad.