The nine-year-old boy who survived Wednesday’s Libyan air crash has told reporters from the Telegraaf newspaper he is okay but his legs hurt, the paper reports on Friday.

The paper says one of the doctors treating Ruben allowed him to speak to a Telegraaf reporter by mobile phone for a few minutes.
‘My name is Ruben and I come from Holland,’ the boy was quoted as saying. ‘Things are okay but my legs really hurt.’
Ruben could not say anything about what had happened to him and did not appear to realise he had been in a plane crash, the paper said. Nor does he yet know he is an orphan.
‘I am in a hospital… I don’t know how I got here. I don’t know anything,’ the boy said. ‘I just want to go. I want to get washed, dressed and go.’
Anger
Foreign ministry secretary general Ed Kronenburg, who is in Tripoli, told reporters he was angry that the Telegraaf had phoned the child and that he has urged the Dutch ambassador to Libya to make it clear the boy is to be left alone.
Only medical staff and family members should be allowed at his bedside, Kronenburg told Nos radio. ‘We have to make sure his privacy is better protected.’
Deputy prime minister André Rouvoet has described the newspaper’s action as ‘shameless’.

Chair
Meanwhile, more details have emerged about the boy’s survival. According to international media reports, the boy was found some 800m from where much of plane’s tail was found, still strapped into his chair.
The boy had multiple breaks in his legs and feet. According to a spokesman for the ANWB travel organisation Ruben is receiving ‘exceptional care’ in hospital. His aunt and uncle are in Tripoli with the boy.
The ANWB, which specialises in repatriating Dutch nationals who have become ill abroad, has sent a trauma team to Tripoli to oversee Ruben’s eventual return to the Netherlands. When that happens will be up to local doctors, the spokesman said.
Saif El-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has visited the boy in hospital.
For an AP story on Ruben’s family’s holiday blog, click here