News Desk: All 153 people on board a commercial plane, which crashed into buildings in a densely populated district of Nigeria's main city of Lagos on Sunday, have been killed.


Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority confirmed that there were no survivors on board the Dana Air plane. However, the cause of the crash is yet unknown. This is the worst air disaster in nearly two decades in the nation.


Rescue and police teams rushed to the crash site and tried to put ot the flames around the wreckage of the Boeing MD83 aircraft.


Officials said that 153 people were on the flight traveling from Nigeria's central capital of Abuja to Lagos in the nation's southwest. The plane crashed in Iju neighbourhood, just north of the airport. It is not clear how many people died on the ground in the worst air disaster.


The plane had engine trouble, according to several unconfirmed reports. President Goodluck Jonathan has declared three days of national mourning in Africa's most populous nation.

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