At least 46 people were killed and 10 other injured after a Sudanese military plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Omdurman, a double city of the capital of Khartoum, say the state media.
The Russian -built Antonov aircraft came down after taking off from the Wadi Seid Military Air Base on Tuesday night.
The cause of the collision, which was killed by military officers and civilians, is not clear – but military sources were quoted that it was probably a technical failure.
The collision came about the day after the forces of paramilitary fast support (RSF) – which in the war with the army – said that he had knocked down a combat jet in southern Darfur.
The conflict devastated large parts of Sudan – including Khartoum and Omdurman – with thousands of people killed and about 12 million displaced.
The Ministry of Health announced that the emergency teams had taken injured civilians, including children, to a nearby hospital after a plane crash on Tuesday.
The senior commander of the army in Khartoum was among the killed, Reuters’s news agency quoted unnamed military sources.
Witnesses said there was a loud explosion, and several homes were damaged when the plane crashed, AFP news agency reports.
The collision also caused currents of electricity in nearby neighborhoods, he added.
Sudan was in the Civil War, which began in April 2023. After the army and the RSF became involved in a deliberate struggle for power.
The war divided the country, and the army was controlled north and east, while the RSF holds most of the Darfur region in the west and parts of the south.
In recent weeks, the army has withdrawn parts of the Cartum and the surrounding areas from the RSF.
