Among the dead is a famous Italian archaeologist, professor at the University of Naples
A plane carrying 157 people crashed this Sunday (10) six minutes after taking off from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, killing everyone on board. The crash of a very modern Boeing 737 MAX 8 from the airline Ethiopian Airlines – recently acquired – occurred near Bishoftu, a region also known as Debre Zeit, about 50 kilometers south of the country's capital. The cause of the accident is still unknown.
The people on board are of at least 35 different nationalities, according to information from the company. Eight were Italian.
The list of those killed in the plane crash includes two men and a woman who worked as volunteers for a Bergamo-based NGO that carried out actions in Africa.
Sicily's Secretary of Culture, renowned archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa, is another victim.
Tusa, 66, had been in charge of cultural policy in Italy's fourth-most populous region since April 2018 under the conservative government of Nello Musumeci. He was also a professor of paleontology at the Nun Orsola Benincasa University of Naples.
“I'm devastated, it's a terrible tragedy that I still can't believe. I lost a friend, a tireless worker, a secretary with great technical ability and balance, who went to Kenya for work. An honest and good man, who loved Sicily like few others,” said Governor Musumeci.
Son of also famous archaeologist Vincenzo Tusa, the Italian was traveling to Kenya, where he had already been last December with his wife, Valeria Patrizia Li Vigni, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Palermo. He would participate in a UNESCO archeology conference.
With Ansa and Reuters
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