A Sudanese military plane carrying personnel and equipment to the strife-torn Darfur region crashed near the capital Khartoum on Sunday killing 15 people on board, the army said. The plane's engine stopped working and the pilot was trying to make an emergency landing when it went down about 40km (25 miles) south-west of the Khartoum suburb of Omdurman, state news agency SUNA reported.
The Antonov 12 transport plane was travelling to El Fasher in northern Darfur, military spokesman Al-Sawarmi Khalid said. Thirteen people initially died and nine were injured in the crash, all of them military personnel, he added. Two of the injured later died of their wounds, SUNA reported. There have been several crashes in Sudan in recent years.