SUDAN - Sudan troops drown in Nile crash

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Sudan

troops drown in Nile crash

 

 

 

 

 

 

At least 77 soldiers have drowned in southern Sudan after a military

steam boat sank on the River Nile.

The soldiers, belonging to the former rebels the Sudan People's Liberation

Army (SPLA), died after their vessel collided with a passenger ferry.

Minutes later two rescue boats ran into each other killing

another soldier.

After 21 years of civil war, water transportation in

southern Sudan remains unregulated, says the BBC's Jonah Fisher

in Khartoum.

Most boats lack safety equipment, says our correspondent.

The military steam boat had no maps or lights or maps, said Lt

Col Stephen Chan Along.

It was travelling on the wrong channel of the river Nile at 2000 (1700 GMT) when the

accident occurred near the village of Melut, in Upper Nile State, he said.

The area is part of Sudan so ravaged by war

that the river is often the only way of getting around, says our correspondent.

Eyewitnesses said the bodies were lined up along the banks of

the Nile.

The SPLA now runs southern Sudan after last

year's peace deal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6066776.stm

 

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