Addis Ababa April 12/2018 President Mulatu Teshome has offered his sympathy and compassion to the government of Algeria over the deadliest airplane crash which killed 257 people near the capital Algiers.

On behalf of the government of Ethiopia and himself, Mulatu expressed his deep sorrow over the death, according to a press release of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The crash was the deadliest since 2014, when 298 people were killed following the crash of Malaysian airlines jet over Ukraine.