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Thursday, October 29, 1998 Published at 23:36 GMT


World: Africa

Two Jonglei state officials die in Sudanese chopper crash


Two senior officials in the southern Sudanese state of Jonglei have been killed in a helicopter crash.

Sudanese television said the minister for social and cultural affairs Mohi Eddin Mussa Al Jak and the state co-ordinator Sebit Abdel Farraj died in the state capital, Bor, when their helicopter crash-landed in a storm.

Fifteen other people on board escaped unhurt.

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