Relatives visit boy who survived air disaster

Doctors said Dutch boy Ruben van Assouw was out of danger after surgery on his shattered legs.

His aunt and uncle arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli to see him on Wednesday and the hospital said he immediately recognised them and smiled.

Ruben, who had been in South Africa with his parents, who were celebrating their wedding anniversary, and older brother, was pulled from the debris of the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus that crashed minutes before landing in Tripoli killing 103 others on board.

Afriqiyah said 58 Dutch passengers, six South Africans, two Britons, two Libyans, two Austrians, one German, one French national and one Zimbabwean were also on board.

Priscilla Collick, 52, a mother-of-two from Swansea, South Wales, was among the victims.

Her elder son, Sean Collick, 24, said his mother was on her way home after visiting relatives in South Africa.

Also among the dead was Irish writer Bree O'Mara, 42, who lived in South Africa. She missed last month's London Book Fair because of the air chaos sparked by the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano and put off her trip until this week.

The nationalities of 19 other passengers have yet to be confirmed, but all 11 crew were Libyan.