KHARTOUM, Sudan - A Sudanese official says a cargo plane has crashed minutes after taking off from Khartoum's airport, killing at least two people.
It was the second plane crash in Sudan's capital in a week and the third this month.
Abdel Hafez Abdel Rahim, a civil aviation spokesman, says at least two of the plane's four-member crew died in the crash. The crew is believed to be Russian.
Ambulance sirens were heard in Khartoum after the crash Monday around 8 a.m.
Abdel Rahim says the plane, destined for the south Sudanese capital of Juba, "crashed about one kilometer or so from the airport."
UN-operated Miraya Radio reported black smoke rising just south of the airport and said the Ilyushin 76 plane belonged to private Sudanese company Ababiel.
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