The Sudanese army announced Tuesday evening on Tuesday evening, the crash of a military plane while taking off from Wadi Sidna airport in Omdurman, west of the capital, killing and injuring the military and civilians.
“One of our planes (without mentioning its type) crashed off from Wadi Sidna (military) airport this evening, and we counted a certain number of martyrs, the wounded, the military and the civilians (without Mention a number), “said the army in a declaration.
The press release stressed that “the injured were helped, while the fire fighting teams managed to control the fire on the plane crash site with Hot Housing 75 in the city of Omdurman”.
The army did not explain the causes of the accident or the number of victims.
A military source asked not to be appointed, he told the French news agency that “Antonov’s military plane had crashed in Omdurman and that the death of his crew and a number of officers On board “, noting that the cause of the accident was a” failure technique. “
For its part, the Karari resistance committees in Omdurman (a civil committee) declared in a brief declaration that “a certain number of organizations and injuries have arrived at the Al -Nu al -NU (government) educational hospital (government) In Omdurman, after a plane belonging to the armed forces crashed. “
Sudanese militants on social media broadcast videos from a broken plane and fire burned it.
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The incident came the day after the follow -up that the rapid support forces announced that it had killed a military plane belonging to the Sudanese army in the city of Nyala, the capital of the state of southern Darfour to the west of the country.
The rapid support forces said in a statement on Monday that its elements killed “a military plane … The Euyury model on the sky of the city of Nyala, the present in the state of southern Darfur” , noting that “the” plane burns with all its crew and demolition in the next district north of the city is dispersed. “”
Since April 2023, the Sudanese army and the rapid support forces have fought a war that has killed more than 20,000 people and around 15 million inappropriates and refugees, according to the United Nations and local authorities.
A few days ago and with an accelerated pace, the rapid support areas of support in favor of the army in the center states (Khartoum et al -jazeera) and the southern states (white and northern kordofan) adjacent To the west of the Darfur region (5 states), and rapid support requires control 4 states, while war has not extended to the north of the East country.
In the state of Khartoum, made up of 3 cities, the army checked 90% of the city of Bahri in the north and most of the parts of the city of Omdurman to the west and 60% of the depths of the city of Khartoum, which intervenes in the state and contains the presidential palace and the international airport and almost surrounded by the army forces, while the support forces are still rapid in the eastern and southern districts of the city.