Four passengers and three crew have been killed today following the crash of a cargo plane owned by local company South West Aviation carrying cash to the Wau region in the country’s northwest for Juba-based Opportunity Bank.

The transport minister, Madut Biar Yol who made the disclosure said the aircraft crashed near South Sudan’s capital Juba and shortly after its early morning takeoff in the Kameru neighbourhood around seven kilometers west of the city’s international airport. He said:

“There were eight people on board, three passengers and five crew. A single person from among the passengers survived and she is in good health,

“The four other passengers and the three crew members are dead.”

According to the minister, the crew members were Russian while the passengers were all South Sudanese.