9 people killed in a plane crash in eastern Sudan War reaches the 100-day

A civilian plane crashed after taking off from an airport in eastern Sudan, killing nine people, including four military personnel who were aboard the aircraft, according to military sources, as the conflict in the northeastern African country reached the 100-day mark Monday with no sign of abating.
The military said in a statement that a child survived late Sunday’s crash in Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea that so far has been spared from the devastating war between the military and the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
The Antonov plane crashed shortly after taking off from the city’s airpor.
It blamed a technical failure for the crash. The statement provided no further details. Al-Taher Abdel-Rahman, the secretary of Finance Minister Gebreil Ibrahim, was among the dead, according to the minister, who took to social media to mourn his employee.
Sudan has plunged into chaos since mid-April when monthslong tensionsin the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere across the country.