A FORMER Lancashire Evening Telegraph journalist is believed to have been killed in the hijacked Ethiopian airline disaster.

The Foreign Office today confirmed that Mr Brian Tetley, 61, was one of a number of Britons "officially missing" after the crash in the Indian Ocean off Grande Comoro on Saturday.

The Manchester-born writer worked as a sub-editor for the Evening Telegraph shortly before he emigrated to Kenya in 1968. He took on dual UK-Kenyan nationality.

British officials have been liaising with Mr Tetley's family in Kenya as they have attempted to formally identify bodies from the wreckage. Mr Tetley, who also supplied stories to the Evening Telegraph as a freelance, is thought to have been travelling with British news cameraman Mohamed "Mo" Amin.

Amin's pictures and BBC reporter Michael Buerk's commentary are acknowledged as being the driving force behind Bob Geldof's Live Aid concert and relief efforts for the starving of Ethiopia.

Mr Tetley was working as Mr Amin's biographer and script writer.

Around 50 passengers on the Boeing 767 survived after it ran out of fuel and ditched into the sea.

The hijackers are thought to be among the dead.

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