A 14-month old girl who survived Wednesday’s plane crash in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, is now conscious, doctors say.
The girl is being treated at the city’s teaching hospital and is able to recognise relatives, journalist Philip Mabior from Juba’s Eye Radio reports.
A second person has undergone surgery in the hospital.
At least 36 people died after the cargo plane crashed on take-off near Juba’s airport on Wednesday morning.
The Antonov An-12 plane, operated by local company Allied Services Limited was heading to Paloch, Upper Nile State, and came down 800m (half a mile) from the runway.
It crashed into a farming community on an island on the White Nile River, but it is not clear how many of the victims and survivors were passengers and how many were on the ground.
The 14-month old was one of two people taken out alive from the wreckage, the other is reported to have died later.
The cargo plane was not authorised to take passengers, Stephen Warikozi, the head of South Sudan’s Civil Aviation Authority told journalists, but there were thought to have been dozens on board. They were all from South Sudan.
It is not clear what caused the crash but Ukraine-based Antonov said the plane had not been airworthy.
Five of the six crew members were Armenian, while the sixth was Russian. They were all killed.
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By: BBC