The Dutch death toll in Wednesday’s Libyan plane crash could still rise to 71, Ed Kronenburg, secretary general of the foreign affairs ministry, says in Friday’s Volkskrant.

Sixty-one Dutch passengers were travelling with two holiday companies and a further nine had booked with the airline independently. But that figure could change, Kronenburg said.
Ninety-two passengers and 11 crew were killed when the Airbus 330 came down shortly before landing at Tripoli airport. Two Britons and several South Africans are also among the dead. The crew was Libyan.
Gaddafi
Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende spoke with the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday evening. Both leaders offered each other their condolences for the dead.
Gaddafi promised full support for Dutch accident investigators and forensic experts who have been flown in to help identify the victims, the state information service said.
A team from Airbus is also in Tripoli to help with the investigation. The plane’s black box and cockpit voice recorder were found shortly after the crash on Wednesday.