Thirteen people, including a foreign crew of six, were killed when a private cargo plane crashed in Sudan, the operating company said today.
The giant four-engined Antonov An-12, operated by Khartoum-based Saria Air Transport, crashed yesterday as it approached Wau airport, 1,000 km (621 miles) southwest of the capital.
An aviation official said late yesterday at least five people were killed, including four Russian crew. But a company official said today that the six crew members were made up of four Armenians, a Russian and an Uzbek.
The propellor-driven An-12 has been a workhorse cargo plane for the Soviet, then post-Soviet, military since the late 1950s.
Considered an equivalent of the US C-130 Hercules, it is also flown by commercial operators in many developing countries.
Alongside the six crew, an official said the dead included an official from Sudan's central bank, a Saria company engineer and five security and police officers.