¡¡¡¡LAGOS, June 3 (Xinhua) -- A heavy death toll is feared after a passenger plane carrying more than 153 people crashed into a two- storey building in Nigeria's southwestern Lagos State on Sunday, aviation authorities disclosed.

¡¡¡¡Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority(NCAA) Harold Demuren made the disclosure to reporters, saying none of the passengers on board the aircraft survived.

¡¡¡¡A Xinhua reporter at the crash site said more than 40 people living in the two-storey building, each having six flats, were entrapped in the building after the crash.

¡¡¡¡A wild inferno had engulfed the building and was yet to be put off by fire fighters, according to the Xinhua reporter.

¡¡¡¡He said a team of mobile and conventional police and rescue workers, including the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), were on the ground to evacuate victims of the incident.

¡¡¡¡Earlier, NEMA had confirmed the incident to Xinhua, saying the situation was under control.

¡¡¡¡The Xinhua staff reported, "Military helicopters have also been hovering around the area to provide security."

¡¡¡¡At the crash site, dead bodies were being evacuated from inside the building of the Dana plane crash, while the fire fighters, who arrived quite late, could not totally put off the inferno as they ran out of water.

¡¡¡¡Security personnel deployed in the area also had difficulty in controlling the large crowd of sympathizers around the scene.

¡¡¡¡Ganiu Afolabi, a resident in the area, told Xinhua that there was palpable fear that the building may collapse soon, due to wild fire.

¡¡¡¡"It is obvious that the building is now weak and we just pray it doesn't fall off because the fire cannot be quenched," he said.

¡¡¡¡The Dana airplane, which reportedly took off from Nigeria's capital city Abuja, crashed in a residential area in the Lagos metropolis, barely 24 hours after a Nigerian Allied Cargo airplane(also from Lagos) crash-landed in Ghana, killing at least 10 people.