JUBA (AFP) - Four passengers and three crew were killed on Saturday (Aug 22) when a cargo plane belonging to a local operator crashed near South Sudan's capital Juba, the transport minister said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JUBA - Four passengers and three crew were killed on Saturday when a cargo plane belonging to a local operator crashed near South Sudan's capital Juba, the transport minister said.
The aircraft crashed shortly after its early morning takeoff in the Kameru neighbourhood around seven kilometres west of the city's international airport.A single person from among the passengers survived and he is in good health," Transport Minister Madut Biar Yol told AFP.According to the minister, the crew members were Russian while the passengers were all South Sudanese.
The plane owned by local company South West Aviation had been carrying cash to the Wau region in the country's northwest for Juba-based Opportunity Bank.
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