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 Re: مقتل وزير دفاع حكومة جنوب السودان (Re: Kostawi)
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BBC
Air crash kills Sudanese minister
South Sudan's defence minister has been killed along with 21 other people in a plane crash in the south, regional officials have told the BBC.
Dominic Dim Deng was returning with a military delegation to the regional capital Juba from a political conference in the town of Wau.
A presidential adviser was among the 19 passengers and three crew killed.
Reports suggest the plane had developed engine trouble and there were no reports of foul play.
South Sudanese Deputy Prime Minister Riek Mashar told AFP news agency the plane had come down about 375km (220 miles) west of Juba.
He gave no reason for the crash but ruled out an attack, the agency said.
A spokesman for South Sudan's governing Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), Deng Goc, said he believed bad weather had caused the crash.
'Engine trouble'
The United Nations has sent a helicopter to the crash area.
A UN-operated radio station which broadcasts locally says the pilot reported engine trouble just before the crash.
The pilot radioed a control tower in the city of Rumbek, requesting permission to land because one of the engines was having technical problems, it said, quoting an unidentified air operations official.
A few minutes later, the tower lost all contact with the plane, it added.
The South Sudanese presidential adviser killed in the crash was named by Reuters news agency as Justin Yak.
Three years ago, South Sudan President John Garang was killed in a helicopter crash.
An official enquiry said that was an accident.
The region has had an autonomous government since the 2005 peace deal which ended decades of war with Khartoum.
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