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Inquiry into military plane crash which claimed 50 lives

    NAIROBI

    The government’s armed forces spokesman, General Mohamed Osman Yassin, on Saturday announced that an inquiry has been launched into the cause of a military plane crash which claimed the lives of 50 soldiers near Abudlaiq town, about 50 miles east of Khartoum, on Thursday. Yassin emphasised in a press briefing that the area had been “free of hostile elements”, and provisionally attributed the crash to sandstorms.

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