The US president, Barack Obama, today expressed regret over the air disaster in the French Alps and said he hopes to talk over the day with the Prime Minister of Spain, Mariano Rajoy.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with our friends in Europe, especially the people of Germany and Spain after the terrible accident in France. I called Chancellor (Germany, Angela) Merkel today and hope to talk later” with the president “Rajoy to offer our condolences, “Obama said.
In a press conference after meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Gani, Obama said his government is “working to confirm how many Americans may have been on board” the ill-fated flight of German company Germanwings.
“Germany and Spain are two of our closest allies and the message we want to send is that America is at his side at this time of sorrow,” Obama said.
The president recalled that the United States has offered assistance to Germany, Spain and France after the accident and particularly regretted the incident has caused “loss of many children”.
The Afghan president also expressed his “condolences to the people and government of Spain and Germany” by the accident, and recalled that the two countries “formed part” of the NATO mission in Afghanistan.
“Today we pay tribute to the sacrifices of those countries” in Afghanistan, Gani said in the press conference.
French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, has virtually ruled today that survivors in the crash of the plane and said “now can not rule out any hypothesis” about the circumstances of the incident.
The White House said today, without, however, he sees no evidence of terrorism in the event.
The plane, an Airbus A-320 with flight number 4U9525 of low-cost airline subsidiary of Lufthansa, took off from Barcelona at 09.55 local time (08.55 GMT) bound for Düsseldorf and crashed in the French Alps about an hour later.
In the apparatus 144 passengers traveling and 6 crew members, according to the German airline.
French President François Hollande, said that among people who took Germanwings flight had “Spanish victims and other nationalities, mainly German and Turkish”.
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