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Dutch survivor of air crash leaves Libya for home
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-15 21:12
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 Nine-year old Dutch boy Ruben van Assouw lies in a hospital bed prior to his transfer onboard a plane heading towards the Netherlands at Mitiga airport in Tripoli May 15, 2010.[Photo/Agencies]
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TUNIS - A Nine-year-old Dutch boy Ruben, the sole survivor of a plane crash in Libya on Wednesday, left Tripoli for home on Saturday with medical escort, official Libyan Jana news agency said.
Ruben "left Libya after his health condition became stable," the report said.
The boy was flown out on an ambulance jet of Libya's health ministry accompanied by his aunt and a Libyan medical team who have been treating him in al-Khadraa hospital in Tripoli, it added.
"We told Ruben exactly what had happened, He knows that his parents and brother were killed," said a statement by the survivor 's family read to media by Secretary General of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ed Kronenburg.
"We and the entire family will take care of Ruben's future. We have to deal with two kinds of grief, for Ruben finds himself in a terrible situation, and we have also lost members of our family," the statement said.
The grieved family also urged the media to respect its privacy in the coming period.
The statement said Ruben is now "doing fine."
"He is sleeping a lot; now and then he wakes up and is then lucid," the family said.
