A six-year-old child survived crash by a commercial plane that plunged into a lake in South Sudan on Sunday, killing 20 people on board, a local official said.
Among other survivors were an adult man and an Italian doctor with an aid organization who was in surgery and in serious condition, Aguek said
The 19-seater commercial Baby Air plane had been traveling from the capital, Juba, the minister of information for the town of Yirol, Taban Abel Aguek, told The Associated Press.
ABC NEWS reported that officials were investigating the cause of the crash.
Among the dead were at least three children and the Bishop of Yirol, authorities said.
“There were people everywhere,” the official said of the crash site.
Yirol is in the central part of the civil war-torn East African country.
