Five persons killed, 29 injured in Sudanese plane crash

Five passengers of a Sudanese plane were killed as the plane was trying to take off from Khartoum airport on its way to al-Fasher city, the capital of north Darfur estate.

Sudanese naval sources said that 29 of the plane's total number of passengers were gravely injured. The sources added "the plane could not take off and crashed at the side of the runway."

The source indicated that the plane is owned by the private Marsland company which runs flights internally. It was scheduled to fly from Khartoum to al-Fasher through al-Abyad city, the capital of north Kurdovan.