Rescue teams search swamp to reach Kenya Airways wreck

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NAIROBI (AFP) — Rescue teams on Monday prepared to battle a rough terrain in swampland in southwest Cameroon to access the wreckage of a crashed Kenyan Airways plane carrying 114 people, a Kenyan official said.

"It is a very bad terrain ... they will to cut through the mangrove and access the crash site, then try to retrieve what they have to retrieve," said the official with the Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority, asking not to be named.

Cameroon's army cordoned off an area south of Douala around the scene of the crash, that occured in the early hours of Saturday, after flight KQ 507 vanished from radar screens in a violent storm on its way from Douala to Nairobi.

A Kenya Airways official said there was "practically no chance" of finding any survivors in the...