{"id":8317,"date":"2013-06-07T06:04:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T06:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/3-killed-in-sudan-helicopter-crash\/"},"modified":"2013-06-07T06:06:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T06:06:27","slug":"3-killed-in-sudan-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/3-killed-in-sudan-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Killed in Sudan Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Reports from Sudan indicate that 3 people were killed on Thursday when a military helicopter crashed in the capital of the Blue Nile state.}}<\/p>\n<p>The army spokesperson Colonel Al-Sawarmi Khalid Sa\u2019ad earlier said that two people were killed in the accident which took place in the town of al-Damzain and resulted from the chopper crashing into an electricity tower.<\/p>\n<p>But the pro-government Ashorooq TV reported that one extra person perished as a result of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Sa\u2019ad insisted that the helicopter was on a training mission and offered no further details.<\/p>\n<p>The governor of the state Hassan Yassin said the swift response helped reduce the toll and hailed the residents\u2019 cooperation with authorities.<\/p>\n<p>He said there were no casualties among civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Aviation accidents in Sudan are common and authorities routinely blame it on technical failures.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Nile state is the scene of fighting between the government and the Sudan People Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N).<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir sacked SPLM-N chairman Malik Agar from his post as governor of the state following clashes between the army and SPLM-N fighters. Each side blamed the other for instigating the fighting.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2887 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ree.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Site where military helicopter crashed in Damazin, Sudan June 6}<\/p>\n<p>ST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Reports from Sudan indicate that 3 people were killed on Thursday when a military helicopter crashed in the capital of the Blue Nile state.}} The army spokesperson Colonel Al-Sawarmi Khalid Sa\u2019ad earlier said that two people were killed in the accident which took place in the town of al-Damzain and resulted from the chopper crashing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8317"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8317"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}