Part of the plane debris on sight
Scores are feared dead following a crash of a Russian-built cargo plane. The aircraft reportedly crashed on take-off near the international airport in South Sudan’s capital Juba.
According to local reports, about 40 bodies were counted at the wreck site.
BBC reports that it remains unclear how many of the victims were on the plane and how many were on the ground.
Juba’s Radio Miraya says the plane was heading to Paloch in Upper Nile State and crashed just about 8 kilometres from the runway.
Ateny Wek Ateny, presidential spokesman in South Sudan, told Reuters news agency that there were at least two survivors, a crew member and a child. The ill-fated plane came down on the banks of the White Nile river, on Wednesday, November 4, leaving a tail fin and lumps of fuselage strewn in vegetation close to the water.
Al Jazeera reports that an inclement weather was hampering the rescue effort. There are speculation that the plane may have had about 20 people on board, including crew and about 10 to 15 passengers.
The wreckage site
The plane crash in South Sudan is the second air-mishap involving Russian aircraft recorded in Africa within the space of one week.
It would be recalled that just over the weekend (on Saturday, October 31), about 224 passengers and crew aboard a Russian airliner flying from the popular tourist resort Sharm el-Sheikh, crashed into the Sinai desert. The crash has been rumoured as an handiwork of the impious insurgent group, ISIS. But no terror group is yet to attest to the authentication of such rumour.
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