Nine people including the Commissioner of Jebel-Boma County and a 9-year-old girl survived after a chartered plane skidded off an airstrip in Greater Pibor Administrative Area on Friday evening.
According to GPAA Information Minister Jacob Werchum Juok, the incident occurred at around 4:00pm at Jebel-Boma County airstrip.
“There was a plane that came from Juba carrying nine passengers. It missed the runway and hit itself on the site of the airstrip while carrying nine passengers”, he said.
Werchum said all the nine passengers including Alston Longony Yaro escape unhurt while nine-year-old girl sustained minor injuries.
“One child among them was injured as a result of that incident. The child was trying to escape from the danger, then she hit himself on the door of the plane, and that’s what resulted into the injury. But all of them were safe.”
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