A small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan’s Unity State crashed on Wednesday, killing 20 people, an official said.
Local media after an engagement with Unity State’s information minister Gatwech Bipal revealed that the plane crashed at the Unity oilfield airport on Wednesday morning as it was heading to the capital Juba.
Bipal said the passengers were oil workers of the Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC) a consortium that includes China National Petroleum Corporation and state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation.
He said among the dead were two Chinese nationals and one Indian.
Bipal gave no more details on the circumstances that led to the crash. Media reports had initially put the death toll at 18 but
Bipal told Reuters two survivors had later died. One person survived.