Four passengers and three crew were killed
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.
“There were eight people on board, three
passengers and five crew. A single person
from among the passengers survived and she
is in good health,” Transport Minister Madut
Biar Yol told AFP.
“The four other passengers and the three
crew members are dead.”
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.
