At least twenty people have been confirmed dead after a plane crashed on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan on February 25, 2025.
Sudanese senior commander Major Gen. Bahr Ahmed is among the people who have been killed in the accident.
However, reports indicated that the death toll had increased to at least 46 people.
The Khartoum Media Office said the crash also injured 10 others.
In a statement, Sudan’s military health department said the aircraft crashed while taking off from the Wadi Sayidna air base north of Omdurman, the military said in a statement.
The media office said the crash also damaged a number of houses in the Karrari district of Omdurman.
Earlier, the military said that armed forces personnel and civilians were killed in the crash, but it didn’t say what caused the crash.
Sudan’s health ministry said that some bodies were transferred to the Nau hospital in Omdurman.
“Search efforts are still ongoing to find the remaining martyrs under the rubble,” the army said in a statement.
Rescue Process & How the Accident Happened
The Karari Resistance Committee, part of a volunteer aid network in Sudan, confirmed that 10 bodies and several injured individuals were taken to Al-Nao Hospital in Omdurman.
The ministry stated that emergency teams transported injured civilians, including children, to a nearby hospital.
A military source told AFP that a technical malfunction caused the crash.
“The injured have been taken to the hospital, and firefighting teams contained the blaze at the crash site,” the statement read.
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Witnesses reported damage to nearby homes and power outages in surrounding neighborhoods following a loud explosion.
One witness noted that the plane had been flying south from northern Sudan when it crashed near the airbase.
The crash comes amid escalating clashes between the military and the RSF, as both sides target each other’s assets.
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RSF Shoots Down Plane in Sudan
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claimed responsibility for downing a fighter jet in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, on February 24.
In a statement to the media, the RSF said it shot down a Russian-made Ilyushin plane on Monday morning, alleging that the aircraft was destroyed along with its crew.
Eyewitnesses told Darfur24 that an “Antonov” plane was flying over Nyala at 5:15 a.m. before being struck by a missile in the city’s northeastern area.
They reported that the RSF fired multiple anti-aircraft missiles, hitting the plane less than three minutes after it had dropped a bomb at Nyala International Airport.
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