According to preliminary data, 19 staff members of UN affiliated organizations died in the Sunday crash of the Ethiopian Airlines flight, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 11th March, 2019) According to preliminary data, 19 staff members of UN affiliated organizations died in the Sunday crash of the Ethiopian Airlines flight, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement.
"Early indications are that 19 staff members of UN affiliated organizations perished. Alongside IOM, these include the World food Program (WFP), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the UN Environment Program (UNEP), the World Bank and others also lost colleagues in the tragedy," the statement published late on Sunday reads.
The contact with the plane, which was heading to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, was lost just six minutes after Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 took off from Addis Ababa at 05:38 GMT. The site of the crash is located near the town of Bishoftu, some 30 miles to the southeast of the Ethiopian capital. An estimated 149 passengers from 35 countries and eight crew members were on board the plane. According to the carrier, no one has survived the crash.
