Pretoria - A nine-year-old Dutch boy Ruben, the sole survivor of a plane crash in Libya returned to the Netherlands on Saturday with medical escort.
The boy left Tripoli, Libya earlier in the day, aboard an ambulance jet of Libya's Health Ministry accompanied by his aunt and a Libyan medical team who have been treating him in al-Khadraa Hospital in Tripoli.
Ruben had been hospitalised after being found alive following the disaster on Wednesday, he suffered some broken bones.
Ruben's flight home came hours after he was told that his parents were killed in the air crash.
"We told Ruben exactly what had happened, he knows that his parents and brother were killed," said a statement by the survivor's family read to media by Secretary General of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ed Kronenburg.
"We and the entire family will take care of Ruben's future. We have to deal with two kinds of grief, for Ruben finds himself in a terrible situation, and we have also lost members of our family.
"He is sleeping a lot; now and then he wakes up and is then lucid," the family said.
The plane from Johannesburg, crashed on Wednesday morning on approach to Tripoli airport, killing 103 passengers on board of the flight and only Ruben survived the tragic accident, his parents and brother were among the dead.
The Afriqiyah Airways has confirmed that 13 South Africans were on board flight 8U 771, other passengers' nationalities include 67 Dutch, two Libyans, two Austrians, one German, one Zimbabwean, one French, one British, four Belgium, 11 crew members, who were Libyan nationals and one unknown to be notified upon confirmation.
Meanwhile, investigators have begun the daunting task of identifying bodies and determining the cause of the crash.
