Death toll in Sudan's military plane crash rises to 15
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Death toll in Sudan's military plane crash rises to 15
KHARTOUM, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese army on Sunday said the death toll of the military plane which crashed at Omdurman city near the Sudanese capital Khartoum rose to 15 after two of the injured died later, official SUNA news agency reported.
Two of the wounded in the military plane crash died causing the death toll to 15 military men, SUNA quoted Al-Sawarmy Khalid Saad, Sudanese army spokesman, as saying.
He said the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has formed a committee to investigate the reasons behind the repeated incidents of Antonov planes, reiterating that the committee would reach a conclusive result very soon.
The Sudanese army earlier on the day announced that a total of 13 passengers were killed and nine others injured when a Sudanese military plane crashed west of Omdurman city near the capital Khartoum.
The army spokesman said the Antonov 12, on a mission from Khartoum to El Fasher, carrying 16 people in addition to 6 crew members -- all of them military personnel, crashed in Omdurman city, east of Khartoum.
A total of 13 people on board died immediately and nine others were injured and transferred to a hospital, the spokesman said.
"The plane's crash was due to a technical fault," he said, adding that the pilot first reported a stoppage of one of the plane's engines and then the second one.
The plane crashed at an area some 40 km west of Omdurman city while the pilot was trying to make an emergency landing, according to the spokesman.
Earlier, a security source told Xinhua that the crash might have killed at least 17 people, but he could not confirm on that.
There have been repeated Sudanese plane crashes recently, the last of which in El Fasher, capital of Sudan's North Darfur State a few days ago, when an Antonov plane swerved from the runway with no loss of lives.
In August, a Sudanese civil plane, carrying a ministerial delegation, crashed in Sudan's South Kordofan State, killing all 31 passengers on board, including the Sudanese minister of guidance and endowments. Enditem
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