The wreckage of missing Mozambique Airlines plane has been found, but none of the 34 people aboard survived the crash

The flight was meant to land in Luanda in the early afternoon

The wreckage of a Mozambique Airlines plane that disappeared over Namibia has been found, but none of the 34 people aboard survived the crash, police say.

The burned-out aircraft was found in the Bwabwata National Park, near the borders with Angola and Botswana.

"The plane has been completely burnt to ashes and there are no survivors," Namibia Police Force deputy commissioner Willy Bampton was quoted by Reuters as saying.

The plane left Mozambique on Friday.

Flight TM470 took off from the country's capital, Maputo, at 11:26 (09:26 GMT) and was due to arrive in the Angolan capital, Luanda, at 14:10.

The last contact made with the plane was when it was over northern Namibia.

The authorities say most of those on board were Mozambican or Angolan, and several more were Portuguese. The aircraft also carried one citizen from each of Brazil, China and France.

Initially, the airline said there were signs the aircraft might have landed near Rundu.

But on Saturday, Mr Bampton said villagers in the area had heard an explosion.

"Botswana officials informed us that they saw smoke in the air and they thought the crash happened in their country, but when they came to the border they realised that it was in Namibia," Willie Bampton said.

The Bwabwata National Park in Namibia's Kavango East region - covering around 6,100sq km (2,355 square miles) - is a sparsely-populated area of dense forests.

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Nollywood actor Saheed Balogun drags ex-wife Fathia Balogun to court over her refusal to stop bearing his last name

 





Few years ago, Saheed Balogun reportedly said he would soon stop his ex wife, Fathia Balogun, from using his name.

Saheed was quoted to have said “She is my ex. As for my name that she is still answering, the deed will be done soon. The Nigerian law says that after three or four years, you can do something about it. If somebody wants to keep my name, what of the new person coming in? This has nothing to do with grudges.”

And now, it looks as if Saheed is set to do something about his threat.

A reliable source informed Saturday Beats that the actor had taken his ex to court insisting that she drop his name.

Recall also that Fathia had also reportedly boasted in an interview last year, that nobody could stop her from using her name.

Fathia had said, “I laugh, my name is Fathia Balogun and it’s going to remain Balogun; nobody can ever change that and nobody can stop me from answering that name.”

When Saturday Beats contacted Saheed over the recent development, the actor chose to be evasive.

“I have told you that I don’t like talking about my private life. I will talk about my new project. Go and meet those people telling you about this story,” he said.

Several calls were also made to Fathia Balogun, she didn’t respond. A text message was sent to her, she didn’t respond.


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BREAKING NEWS: Mozambique plane missing with 34 on board

 

A Mozambique Airlines (LAM) plane with 28 passengers and 6 crew on board has gone missing on a flight to Angola, say airline officials.

Flight TM470 left Mozambique's capital, Maputo, at 11:26 local time (09:26 GMT) and was due to arrive in the Angolan capital, Luanda, at 14:10.

The last contact made with the plane was when it was over northern Namibia.

The airline said there were signs it might have landed near Rundo, northern Namibia, bordering Angola and Botswana.

"LAM airlines, aeronautical and airport authorities are trying to establish contact to confirm the information," said the airline.

Spokesman Norberto Mucopa told the AFP news agency he could not confirm the nationalities of those on board.

More info to follow....

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PHOTOS: Underwater hotel opens in Tanzania, Africa

The room is located 250m from shore in the Indian Ocean

Guests can soak up the sun on a rooftop deck

(Photographer Anhede)

Night falls

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Spotlights illuminate the sea life that swims by

(Photographer Anhede)

Frequent visitors include a trumpet fish known as Nick

(Photographer Anhede)

The room immerses guests 4m below the surface

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Clear waters and open space

(Photographer Anhede)

The underwater room at the Manta Resort

(Photographer Anhede)

 

 

Joining a list of other experimental under-the-sea hotel rooms in Florida, Sweden and the Maldives, the underwater room at Manta Resort on remote Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar Archipelago immerses guests 4m below the surface. The room sits on the bottom of a three-level floating structure, located 250m from shore in the Indian Ocean.


Above and below each of the room’s eight windows, spotlights illuminate the sea life that swims by. Frequent visitors include a trumpet fish known as Nick, as well as squid and octopus at night. Above the underwater space, guests can climb a ladder to the water level, which contains a bathroom and lounge, or ascend to the rooftop to soak up the sun or lay beneath the stars.


The floating structure was designed by Swedish artist Mikael Genberg, who also constructed the structurally similar Utter Inn in Sweden’s Lake Malaren. For this project, he sought a more remote location with clearer waters, and found it off Pemba’s coast in the form of “the blue hole”, a circular clearing within the coral reef, measuring about 50m in diameter. The open space made it the ideal location to anchor the new underwater structure.


The room officially opened for guests on 1 November. Since Manta Resort has only one underwater space within the now 17-room resort, single nights in the room can be added to an existing stay for $1,500 per night.

 

*Nice! Isn't it?

 

 

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GERMANY: 'Cannibal' Police officer arrested after allegedly killing and eating man he met on cannibalism website

• The victim, 59, had “fantasised about being murdered and eaten by someone else since his youth”

The house where police believe the suspect ate a portion of his victim

A detective has been arrested over a gruesome ‘cannibal’ murder after the hacked-up body of a man he met on the internet was found in his garden.

The suspect, 55, has admitted murdering his victim after the pair chatted online on a dark website for people obsessed with cannibalism, German police said today.

The victim, 59, had “fantasised about being murdered and eaten by someone else since his youth,” Dresden police chief Dieter Kroll said.

When the business consultant, from Hanover, went missing, police began a search and weeks later tracked his path using his communications with the suspected killer.

The pair met on November 4 and within hours the victim was dead, police said.

Dresden head of criminal investigations Maik Mainda said: “They did not know each other personally until then.”

The two men met at Dresden railway station, east Germany, and drove to the suspect’s house in the town of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau.

When police caught up with the suspect on Wednesday, he admitted slashing the victim’s throat, officers said.

Mainda said: “The agreement was that the killing should take place immediately. The suspect then used a knife to cause a life-threatening wound on the throat of the victim, which led to his death.

“The suspect has told us that he then cut the victim into separate pieces, including many very small pieces, and that he also cut through bones. The suspect then buried the body parts on the sloping lawn of his property.”

Killer and victim had extensive email, text and telephone contact since October to arrange their fatal date.

Detectives believe the suspect, a handwriting analysis expert, spent five hours torturing the victim before dismembering his body and burying him.

They are now probing whether he ate parts of the body before putting them in the ground.

The case echoes that of Armin Meiwes, dubbed the “Cannibal of Rothenburg”, who, in 2001, killed and ate a man who had advertised on the internet for someone to kill him “and leave no trace”.

Meiwes filmed the killing and was jailed for life in 2006.

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