Bodies are being pulled from the wreckage of a plane that exploded and burst into flames after veering off a runway, killing many of the 217 passengers on board.

The head of Khartoum airport medical services put the number of dead at 120.

Meanwhile, police deputy director general Al Adel Ajeb told local television he could confirm a total of 111 survivors.

“The operation to recover bodies from the plane is going on now. It is a difficult operation because some bodies are completely burnt and there are body parts,” he said.

The attempt to account for passengers was also being hampered by the fact some seemed to have left the airport amidst the chaos.

Some 203 passengers and 14 crew members were on board the Sudan Airways Airbus which left the runway at Khartoum airport as it landed, and then burst into flames.

Sudanese television broadcast pictures of the aircraft ablaze in the darkness while emergency crews used water hoses in a vain attempt to dampen the burning fuselage.

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