The nine-year-old Dutch boy who was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Libyan capital has returned home.
Ruben van Assouw escaped from the crash that killed his parents, brother and 100 others in Tripoli on Wednesday morning.
He was accompanied on the flight from Matiga military airfield in Tripoli by his uncle, aunt and the Libyan doctor who has been treating him.
Dr Siddiq ben Dilla said: 'He's a very special patient. He is talking and in good health. I will stay (in the Netherlands) for as long as necessary.'
The Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330 from Johannesburg in South Africa disintegrated on landing.
The boy's aunt and uncle said that Ruben now knows that his mother, father and 11-year-old brother died in the crash.
'We have explained to Ruben exactly what happened. He knows that his parents and his brother are dead,' they said in a statement read to media in Tripoli.
They said Ruben was doing well under the circumstances and had seen the flowers and messages of support sent to him.
