{"id":14453,"date":"2018-09-09T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14453"},"modified":"2018-09-09T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:22:57","slug":"south-sudan-many-dead-after-passenger-plane-crashes-in-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14453","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan: Many dead after passenger plane crashes in river"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"90.1978287093\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least 19 people died in South Sudan when a small aircraft carrying passengers from Juba International Airport to the city of Yirol crashed, a local official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Taban Abel Aguek, <span>State information Minister,\u00a0<\/span><span>told Anadolu news agency<\/span>\u00a0three people, including one child and a co-pilot, have been rescued from the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The minister said 22 people were on board the 19-seater plane. He said authorities are investigating the cause of Sunday&#8217;s crash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have not yet established full details of the airline but what we know it is a 19-seater plane coming from Juba to Yirol this morning,&#8221; <span>Aguek<\/span>, told AFP news agency. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it arrived the weather was so foggy and when it tried to land it crashed&#8230; Its so sad. Many people on board are feared dead. We are still establishing details,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Anglican Bishop of Yirol, Simon Adut, was confirmed among the dead, according to Abel.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the United Nations radio station Radio Miraya reported there were only three survivors, and posted a picture on its Twitter account of the twisted wreckage of the plane submerged in water.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"4.2084592145\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UPDATE: Here is a wreckage of an aircraft that plunged into Yirol River in Lakes state of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SouthSudan?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SouthSudan<\/a> killing scores. Among the dead is an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Italian?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Italian<\/a> doctor and the Bishop of Yirol <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unmissmedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@unmissmedia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNRIC_Italia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UNRIC_Italia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shiine2054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@shiine2054<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IreneLasu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IreneLasu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SebitWilliamKer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SebitWilliamKer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GShadar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GShadar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OM41OFVI4n\">pic.twitter.com\/OM41OFVI4n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Radio Miraya (@RadioMiraya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RadioMiraya\/status\/1038716301861117957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2015, 36 people were killed when a Soviet-era Antonov plane crashed just after take-off from Juba.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, 37 people had a miraculous escape after their plane hit a fire truck on a runway in northwestern Wau before bursting into flames.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 19 people died in South Sudan when a small aircraft carrying passengers from Juba International Airport to the city of Yirol crashed, a local official said. Taban Abel Aguek, State information Minister,\u00a0told Anadolu news agency\u00a0three people, including one child and a co-pilot, have been rescued from the crash. The minister said 22 people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}