CAIRO, April 11. /TASS/. No less than 200 military servicemen might have died in a crash of an Ilyushin-76 military transport plane in Algeria. The plane crashed shortly after leaving the airdrome of a military base in Boufarik, 50 kilometers south of the capital Algiers, Al-Hadath TV said.

The plane instantly caught fire.

There have been no official statements from the Algerian authorities so far.