The Sudanese mass media said yesterday that the plane which crashed in southern Sudan on Monday and resulted in killing 13 persons was carrying a monetary shipment of 3.5 million dollars. The Russian-made transport plane was on its way to Wao town from Khartoum. Witnesses told the Sudanese paper al-Sahafa that a fire erupted in the plane before it blew up and fell down. The director general of the general aviation company in Sudan, Muhammad Abdul Qader, told journalists that the plane was carrying monetary shipment from the central bank of Sudan to one of the Bank’s branches in Wao. The rebels in southern Sudan had downed several planes during the past years, but they denied any link to the crash of this plane.
I’d check the wreckage and see if there is any trace of the cash on board. Plane crash would be a good cover for a robbery. Of course, it was a old Russian plane. |