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Juba, South Sudan – A plane crashed on a lake Sunday, killing 20 people, a local official said.
According to Yirol's information minister, Taban Abel Aguek, the 19-seat Baby Air plane had left the capital, Juba.
The officials were investigating the cause of the accident.
Among the dead were at least three children and the bishop of Yirol, according to the authorities. The three survivors were a six-year-old man, an adult man and an Italian doctor with an aid organization who was in surgery and in serious condition, Aguek said.
"There were people everywhere," said the site manager of the accident.
Yirol lies in the central part of the East African country torn by civil war.
Associated Press
