By msnbc.com staff
Updated at 12:40 p.m. ET: More than 150 people were feared dead Sunday after a Dana Airlines passenger jet crashed into crashed into a two-story building in the Iju/Ishaga area of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, the country's aviation director said.
Harold Denuren, head of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, told reporters the plane was heading from Lagos to Abuja in Nigeria with 153 passengers.
"I don't believe there are any survivors," Denuren said.
Nigerian Eye reported from the scene that bodies could be seen burning on the ground, while pictures on the Internet showed large plumes of smoke across Lagos.
Al Jazeera reported from Abuja that witnesses said the the plane may have hit a power line in clear and sunny weather.
The crash came after 10 other people were killed when a Boeing 727 cargo plane flying from Lagos crashed Saturday in Accra, the capital of Ghana, and hit a bus, the Sunday Tribune of Nigeria reported.
The crew of four survived, authorities said.
A senior military officer told the Sunday Tribune that the bus was severely damaged, while the plane's wings and tail broke off from its body.
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