Undated file picture shows Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden who was shot
dead by US commandos in Abbottabad, Pakistani on May 2, 2011. Some of
his family members were killed in a plane crash in the UK. AFP PHOTO
LONDON
Members of Osama Bin
Laden's family were among the victims in the crash of a private jet in
Britain, the Saudi embassy in London said Saturday in a message of
condolences.
Four people died when the Saudi
Arabia-registered plane ploughed into a car auction site and burst into
flames in southern England on Friday.
Local police said
the pilot and three passengers died when the Phenom 300 jet attempted
to land at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire and that no one was injured
on the ground.
The Saudi ambassador "offered his
condolences to the sons of the late Mohammed bin Laden and their
relations for the grave incident of the crash of the plane carrying
members of the family at Blackbushe airport," read a statement posted on
the embassy's official Twitter account.
It did not confirm the identities of those killed.
REPATRIATE
The
embassy also said it would work with British authorities to investigate
the incident and repatriate the bodies for burial in Saudi Arabia.
Osama
Bin Laden's father Mohammed was a construction industry magnate and his
numerous descendants constitute a prominent family with wide-ranging
business interests.
Mohammed Bin Laden himself died in a plane crash in Saudi Arabia in 1967.
His son Osama, the late supreme leader of the Al-Qaeda militant network, was shot dead by US special forces in Pakistan in 2011.
Footage
of the aftermath of Friday's crash showed plumes of black smoke rising
into the sky and several cars on fire in the outdoor area of British Car
Auctions, where vehicles were parked awaiting sale.
Saudi
Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation said in a statement Friday
that the plane was registered in the Gulf state, and that it would work
with British investigators to determine the cause of the crash.
The BBC reported that the aircraft had taken off from Milan's Malpensa airport in Italy.
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