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Extend: The plane crashed immediately after take -off from the air base. The mil...

A military aircraft crashed into a residential building in Sudan: there are killed and injured (video)

Extend: The plane crashed immediately after take -off from the air base. The military aircraft crashed in Sudan during the departure from the Wadi-Side's Air Base west of the capital of Hartum. He crashed into a dwelling house. There are 19 dead, including military and civilians. About it writes Al Jazeera. Sources reported that Antonov's aircraft disaster was likely to happen for technical reasons. It is reported that the dead was Major General Bahr Ahmed, a senior commander in Hartum.

"One of our aircraft crashed during the take-off from Vadi-Seidna airport on the evening of February 25," Sudan said in the Armed Forces, recognizing that the dead and wounded were among civilians. The army stated that the ambulance brigades were sent to the hospital while the firefighters localized the fire at the scene. No additional details about the type of aircraft, the number of victims or the cause of the accident has not yet been received.

The Sudan army and the RSF forces (RSF) have been waging war since the mid -April 2023, which, according to the UN and local authorities, killed more than 20,000 people and 14 million people have become displaced. However, studies of US universities estimate the number of deaths at about 130,000 people. The war in Sudan is accompanied by the world's greatest famine.