By Atem Simon
JUBA
A cargo aircraft run by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) crashed Friday in eastern South Sudan, killing two crewmen and injuring a third, a local official has said.
The plane crashed in the Panyagoor area in Jonglei State's Twic East County while delivering humanitarian assistance to the area, which hosts numerous internally displaced persons who have fled recent political violence, Jonglei State Information Minister Jody Jonglei Boyoris told Anadolu Agency.
The plane was torn into three after crashing into a local airport, the minister added.
"According to the information we obtained, the plane carried three people, two of whom were killed while the third sustained moderate wounds," Boyoris added, without mentioning the nationalities of the dead and injured.
South Sudan has been shaken by violence since last December, when President Salve Kiir accused his sacked vice-president, Riek Machar, of leading a failed coup attempt against him.
Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese have since been displaced in fighting between the two rivals, which has led to an increasingly dire humanitarian situation in several parts of the country.
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