There were 12 passengers and 6 crew members, from which 5 Armenians and 1 Russian, on board of a cargo plane that crashed shortly after takeoff in South Sudan's capital, Juba, South Sudan President's official representative said.
According to preliminary data, at least 40 people had been killed. The director of Juba Airport informed that 3 passengers survived. The local mass media informs that the plane crashed on the farms, thus the number of the victims may be more.
The crashed An-12 belonged to Allied Services Limited, a logistics company based in South Sudan.
The Armenian side verifies this information at the moment.