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3 Indians among Sudan jet crash victims

July 09, 2003 02:04 IST

A Sudan Airways plane plunged into a hillside while attempting an emergency landing on Tuesday, killing 116 people, including three Indians.

There was only one survivor, a 3-year-old boy.

The Boeing 737, headed from Port Sudan to the capital, Khartoum, crashed before dawn in a wooded area just after takeoff.

"The bodies were buried in a mass grave after performing Muslim prayer because the conditions of the bodies would not allow transporting and delivering them to the relatives," the Red Sea State governor, Hatem el-Wassila, told the official Sudan News Agency.

The 3-year-old Mohammed el-Fateh Osman had lost his right leg and suffered burns, the governor said, adding the boy was in intensive care at the Port Sudan hospital.

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