30-Jan-2025 12:01 PM
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Juba, Jan 30 (Reporter) A small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan’s Unity State crashed on Wednesday, killing 20 people, an official said.
One Indian and two Chinese nationals died in a plane crash at Unity oilfield airport, en route to Juba's capital, the CNN reported.
The plane crashed at the Unity oilfield airport on Wednesday morning as it was heading to the capital Juba, Gatwech Bipal, Unity State’s information minister, said.
Bipal said the passengers were oil workers of the Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC) a consortium that includes China National Petroleum Corporation and state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation.
According to media reports, Bipal provided no further details about the crash, initially estimating 18 deaths, but later confirmed two survivors died and one person survived.
Several air crashes have occurred in war-torn South Sudan in recent years. In September 2018, at least 19 people died when a small aircraft carrying passengers from the capital Juba to the city of Yirol crashed...////...