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A commercial plane crashed Sunday in a lake in South Sudan and killed 20 people, a local official said.
Taban Abel Aguek, the Associated Press, told the Associated Press that the 19-seat Baby Air commercial plane had left the capital, Juba, the information minister of Yirol city.
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.
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The three survivors are a six-year-old, an adult man and an Italian doctor with an aid organization who was in surgery and in a 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.
