Black boxes found from Libyan plane crash in Tunisia

Searchers in Tunisia have found the black boxes of a Libyan military hospital plane that crashed early on Friday, killing 11 people including a top former jihadist, the transport ministry said."The transport ministry announces that the two black boxes from the Libyan military aircraft that crashed yesterday in the Grombalia region have been found," a statement said, without elaborating.The aircraft came down at about 1:30 am (0030 GMT) on Friday in a field on the edge of Nianou village, around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the capital Tunis.It had been transporting Meftah al-Mabrouk Issa al-Dhawadi to Tunis from a military airfield near Tripoli for medical treatment, the Libyan government said in a statement.All 11 on board were killed. In addition to Dhawadi and another unidentified patient, the dead were three medics and a crew of six.Dhawadi was a leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) -- a now disbanded movement with alleged links to Al-Qaeda which joined the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that overthrew dictator Moamer Kadhafi.Several members of the group served in the transitional government of Abdelrahim al-Kib, which held power for a year from November 2011.Dhawadi was undersecretary at the ministry of martyrs and missing persons.The aircraft that crashed was a Libyan air force Russian-made Antonov-26, a twin-engine turboprob.