A passenger jet carrying 45 people crash-landed in South Sudan's northwestern city of Wau on Monday, leaving at least 14 people injured, government and airport officials said. Hours after the accident, there was still no official confirmation of whether the rest of those on board were alive or dead. "There were 40 passengers and five crew (on board) that is all. I don't have any information," said Gabriel Ngang, the manager of South Supreme Airlines, the owner of the plane.
He said the jet had taken off from the capital Juba.
"Right now we have the ambulance which has just come out from the airport and we have received 14 patients being rushed to hospital in stable condition," said State Information Minister Bona Gaudensio. Paul Charles, an engineer at Wau airport and local radio journalist Lawrence Yunisen both told AFP that some passengers - not counted among the injured - had managed to flee the burning plane unscathed.
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