Army helicopter crashes in Khartoum, one dead: official

KHARTOUM: A helicopter attempting to take off from the military airport in Khartoum crashed on Wednesday morning, killing one of three people on board after an engine caught fire, the army said.

An Mi24 helicopter belonging to the Sudanese air force tried to take off from the military airport in Khartoum but one of its engines caught fire, army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad said in a statement.

The training aircraft veered off the runway and crashed, killing one of the three crew and injuring the other two, he added.

A witness had earlier said the helicopter crashed on landing.