At the site of the wreckage of the ill-fated plane, Ade Aboluyrin, commandant general of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, told Xinhua "the crashed Bellview Boeing 737 was totally buried after a big explosion late Saturday night,"
"All people on board the plane were dead," he said. "There is no way any one boarding the plane could survive because the whole plane was buried underground."
Amid smoking debris at the site which is a big hole about 25 meters in diameter and 10 meters deep caused by the crash, scores of rescue members, most of them Red Cross members, are busy collecting parts of the dead bodies and moving parts of the ill-fated plane's tail and wings.
Documents, tickets, clothing, as well shoes are scattered everywhere at the site around the hole. Several ambulances were trying but could not get to the site only because there was no motorway.