A minimum of 46 folks have been killed and 10 others injured after a Sudanese navy aircraft crashed in a residential neighbourhood in Omdurman, the dual metropolis of the capital Khartoum, state media says.
The Antonov plane got here down after take-off from the navy’s Wadi Seidna air base on Tuesday night, killing navy officers and civilians.
The reason for the crash is unclear, however navy sources have been quoted as saying that it was more likely to have been a technical malfunction.
The crash got here a day after the paramilitary Fast Help Forces (RSF) – which is at struggle with the military – mentioned it had downed a fighter jet in South Darfur.
The battle has devastated giant elements of Sudan – together with Khartoum and Omdurman – with hundreds of individuals killed and about 12 million displaced.
The well being ministry mentioned that emergency groups rushed injured civilians, together with youngsters, to a close-by hospital following Tuesday’s aircraft crash.
A senior military commander in Khartoum was amongst these killed, Reuters information company quoted unnamed navy sources as saying.
Witnesses mentioned there was a loud explosion and a number of other houses have been broken when the aircraft got here down, the AFP information company reviews.
The crash additionally prompted energy outages in close by neighbourhoods, it added.
Sudan has been hit by a civil struggle since April 2023, when the military and the RSF turned concerned in a vicious energy wrestle.
The struggle has break up the nation, with the military controlling the north and the east whereas the RSF holds a lot of the Darfur area within the west and elements of the south.
In current weeks, the military has retaken elements of Khartoum and surrounding areas from the RSF.
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