The government-owned Jornal de Angola named one of the victims as Hasan Tajideen, who was the administrator of Angolan-based food import company Arosfram.

Four other Arosfram staffers also died in the crash, the company's general administrator Kito dos Santos told the newspaper.

Dos Santos was due to travel to Beirut on Tuesday to attend the victims' funerals, it said.

A large number of Lebanese nationals work in oil and diamond-rich Angola, mostly running food import businesses but with some involvement in the diamond industry.(AFP)