News agencies in Algeria-103 people in a plane crash today

According to reports coming from news agencies in Algeria, the Air Algerie plane, a Boeing 737, which is the country's national airline, crashed after one of its engines caught fire as it took off in the remote city of Tamanrasset in the Sahara Desert, killing 103 people.

A spokesman for the airline told AFP that "There was a mechanical problem on take-off"