Based on information from travel agencies Stip and Kras, the Afriqiyah Airways passenger list and the checklist of the customs authorities in Johannesburg, it appears that 70 Dutch people were killed in the plane crash in Tripoli on Wednesday May 12.

38 of the victims were travelling with Stip and 24 with Kras. Nine Dutch people had booked their flight themselves. They include the family of the nine-year-old boy Ruben, the sole survivor of the disaster. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has contacted the relatives of the victims. Ruben, who has been operated on, will return home on Saturday May 15.

The Dutch assistance team arrived in Tripoli on May 13 and immediately set to work. The Libyan authorities are cooperating to the full. Foreign minister Maxime Verhagen made this announcement Thursday afternoon at a meeting in Hoofddorp for relatives of the crash victims.

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