90 Feared Dead As Ethiopian Airlines Jet Plunges Into Sea Off Lebanon -- The Guardian
• Witnesses saw ball of fire in sky during bad storm
• Terrorism not suspected, says Lebanese president
Investigators were tonight carrying out DNA tests on severely burned bodies recovered from the sea after an Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying 90 people caught fire during a lightning storm and crashed into the Mediterranean minutes after taking off from Beirut.
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