Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Scores killed in South Sudan plane crash

People gather at the site where a cargo plane crashed into a small farming community on a small island in the White Nile river, close to Juba airport in the Hai Gabat residential area, on November 4, 2015. © Charles Lomodong
Several people were killed today when a plane crash-landed shortly after taking off from South Sudan’s capital Juba.
The plane crashed onto a small island in the White Nile river, close to Juba airport.
Radio Miraya, a UN-backed station reported that the Cargo plane heading to Paloch in Upper Nile State crashed just 800 metres from Juba International Airport runway.
The radio said up to 40 people may have been killed, adding that airport officials had told them only three passengers had survived.
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