Experts have found the second black box of the Air Algerie flight that crashed in a remote part of northern Mali, killing all 118 people on board.

The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali issued a statement that said its specialists deployed to the site had located the second black box that may help to determine what happened to the plane, which had encountered bad weather.

The Air Algerie jet was flying from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers in Algeria on Thursday when it went down in Mali near the border with Burkina Faso.

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