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News in Photographs: Defence Minister, CDS Brief Buhari on Air Crash that Claimed Army Chief, 10 Others

Breaking | 5 years ago

Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (rrd), Chief of Defence Staff, General LEO Irabor, and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Oladayo Amao, were at the State House Friday night to brief President Muhammadu Buhari on the plane crash that claimed the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 other military officers and crew members.

Gen Attahiru and some military officers died in the plane that crashed near Kaduna Airport on Friday evening.

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