South Sudan's Yirol Plane crash

Taban Abel Aguek

Source: facebook(Taban Abel Aguek)

According to Hon, Taban Abel Aguek the Minister of Information, Youth and Culture in Eastern Lake State, Yirol “the plane arrival 8:40am South Sudanese time the weather was foggy that morning the plane went pass we thought it was hoovering to make a turn for landing but suddenly we heard loud buuumuu sound", Mr Aguek reported. SBS Dinka confirmed that the plane crash has claimed 20 lives with three survivors. Amongst them six (6) women and two women were pregnant and four (4) foreigners and ten (10) South Sudanese national were reported to have died on the crash. These include one Ethiopian businessman who is a manager of Construction Company working in Aluakluak and another Ugandan man who own a private clinic and the other two were pilots both of whom were Sudanese. It was also reported that trio survivors include 32 years Old Italian’s Doctor with cut to his throat. His condition was life threatening at the time but now in a stable condition after he had stitches to his throat and he was then transported to juba. A six year’s old little girl with broken arm and 43 years old man survived the tragedy. The minister also alleged that there were three suspected contributory factors that include weather, number of passengers on board the flight and the age of the plane.



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