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.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service