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ForMin Aurescu sends condolences to families of victims of French Alps aircrash; activates crisis cell

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu has sent, on Tuesday, his condolences to the families of passengers aboard the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps.

Photo credit: (c) Ilie BUMBAC / AGERPRES PHOTO

"It is a great loss and tragedy", said Aurescu, in a tweet.

Hollande: No survivors likely in Airbus crash in French Alps

French President Francois Hollande said that he believed none of the 148 people on board the Germanwings' airbus that crashed on Tuesday in the French Alps has survived.

Noting that the crash happened in a zone that is particularly hard to access, the French President characterized the accident as a "tragedy in our soil"

French President Says 'Probably No Survivors' in Germanwings Plane Crash

French President Francois Hollande has said in a televised address that probably there are no survivors of the crash of a Germanwings plane in the French Alps.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who is now traveling to the site of the crash, has also announced that all 148 people on board have most likely died during the incident

Passenger Jet Crashes in France

A Germanwings airliner with 148 people on board has crashed in the French Alps.

The Airbus A320 was carrying 142 passengers and 6 crew, according to France 24. Neither Germanwings nor French aviation safety authorities have so far given any account on what led to the incident.

It was flying from Barcelona, southeast Spain, en route to Düsseldorf in Northern Germany.

German, Spanish, 'probably' Turkish victims in plane crash: Hollande

German, Spanish, and probably Turkish passengers were on the plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline that crashed in southern France on March 24 en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, French President François Hollande has said.

 He said that he could not say with "total certainty" that no French nationals were aboard the Germanwings flight.

More Flights Between Sofia, Germany Cancelled as Lufthansa Strike Continues

Only two of the ten scheduled flights between Bulgaria's Sofia Airport and Munich and Frankfurt will be conducted on Friday as the pilots of German airline Lufthansa continue their strike.

Short and medium haul flights to Europe, including all flights between Sofia and the two German airports, were cancelled on Wednesday, when the strike began.

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