Tripoli crash survivor confirmed as Ruben, nine

The sole survivor of Wednesday’s air crash in Libya is a nine-year-old boy from Tilburg called Ruben, the foreign affairs ministry confirmed in a statement on Thursday morning.


The child is doing well, given the circumstances the statement said.
An uncle and aunt have now arrived in Tripoli on board a ministry plane and are being taken to hospital to see the boy.
As soon as his health allows, he will be repatriated to the Netherlands, the ministry said.

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