Wednesday 4 November 2015

Plane crash kills up to 41 passengers in South Sudan


Up to 41 people are feared dead after a plane crash-landed into a nearby community shortly after taking off from South Sudan’s capital Juba, reports say.

A police officer and local media reported at least 41 people had been killed as bodies were counted at the wreck site.

Police were pulling bodies of men, women and children out of the wreckage of the cargo plane, which crashed into a small farming community on a small island in the White Nile river, close to Juba airport.

Several small farming communities live on the island, but it is not clear if some of the victims were people who were on the ground when the plane hit.

“Cargo plane heading to Paloch in Upper Nile State crashed just 800 metres from Juba International Airport runway,” reported Radio Miraya, a UN-backed station.

The radio said airport officials had told them only three passengers had survived.

The main fuselage of the plane had ploughed into thick woodland, with debris scattered around the riverbank in a wide area.

Several small farming communities live on the island, and it was not clear if some of the victims were people who were on the ground when the plane hit.

Radmir Gainanov, spokesman for Russia’s diplomatic mission in Uganda, which also oversees South Sudan, said the embassy was in touch with local authorities, including the defence ministry.

“We are clarifying details,” he told AFP from Uganda.

Juba’s airport is the busiest in the war-torn country, which is the size of Spain and Portugal combined but with few tarred roads.

Wednesday 4 November 2015

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/plane-crash-kills-ten-passengers-in-south-sudan/story-e6frfq80-1227596478592

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Bodies of 33 victims of Saturday's plane crash in Egypt identified


A Russian official says families have identified the bodies of 33 victims killed in Saturday's plane crash over Egypt

The Russian jet crashed over the Sinai Peninsula early Saturday, killing all 224 people on board. Most of them were holidaymakers from Russia's St. Petersburg.

Igor Albin, deputy governor of St. Petersburg, said in a televised conference call that as of Wednesday morning families have identified 33 bodies.

Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov said rescue teams in Egypt have expanded the search area to 40 square kilometers (15 square miles).

Russian officials have refrained from announcing the cause of the crash, citing the ongoing investigation.

Wednesday 4 November 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/04/latest-bodies-33-victims-saturday-plane-crash-in-egypt-identified/

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