Algiers: Wrecks of an Air Algerie flight that went missing earlier on Thursday with 116 people onboard has been found in Mali, media reports said.

"We've come to know that local residents in the desert area of Goussy in Mali have seen probably wreckage of the missing plane," state-run APS news agency quoted Algerian Transport Minister Amar Ghoul as saying at a press conference, but the information is "still to be confirmed," said Xinhua.