Mali has opened a judicial probe into the Air Algerie plane disaster as part of international efforts to determine the cause of the crash, Mali's Minister of Solidarity and Humanitarian Action said Sunday. "Mali opened a judicial inquiry immediately after the discovery of the plane... for manslaughter," Hamadou Konate told AFP after visiting the family of Bakary Diallo, the only Malian killed in the crash.
A total of 118 people died, with entire families were wiped out, when an Air Algerie plane crashed in Mali's remote, barren Gossi area, not far from the border with Burkina Faso last Thursday.