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Sudan plane crashes, S.Sudan minister on board-SPLM

Fri May 2, 2008 8:45am EDT
JUBA, Sudan, May 2 (Reuters) - A plane crash landed in Sudan on Friday and Southern Sudan's minister of defence was on board but it was unclear if he had been killed, a government spokesman said.

"The Southern Minister of Defence (Dominic Dim) and the former Minister of Cabinet Affairs were on the plane along with other passengers from an SPLM conference on their way back to Juba," SPLM spokesman Deng Goc said.

The UN said the plane was a Beachcraft 1900 operated by South Sudan Air Connection traveling from Wau to Juba with 21 passengers on board. (Reporting by Skye Wheeler and Opheera McDoom, writing by Will Rasmussen; editing by Philippa Fletcher)


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