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Saturday, 4 May, 2002, 21:39 GMT 22:39 UK

In pictures: Nigeria plane crash

Nigerian officials say more than 100 people have been killed after a Nigerian aircraft crashed into a densely populated district of the northern city of Kano.

Wreckage of the fuselage of the plane lie amidst remnants of houses destroyed as the plane belonging to EAS airlines crashed in Kano

The wing of the crashed plane of the EAS airlines is poised on the roof of a house in Kano

A woman waits to see her baby girl's body being brought out of the wreckage. Her baby was in one of the houses that was razed by the crashing plane.

Parts of the plane lie on the roof of a house that was smashed as it crashed in Kano

People carry the body of a deceased person to a makeshift ambulance

A man (centre) carries out the body of a baby girl, wrapped in yellow cloth, who was a resident of the neighbourhood where a plane crashed

Wreckage of one of the engines of the plane

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