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Sudan Vice President Dies in Copter Crash
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Aug 01, 2005 12:24am |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Monday, August 1, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | KHARTOUM, Sudan - A rebel official said Sudan's vice president, a former rebel leader who is a key figure in the country's fledgling peace deal, was killed in a helicopter crash. Search crews reached the site early Monday and found a body they believe to be that of John Garang, a U.N. official said.
Ugandan and Sudanese forces had been searching for Garang's helicopter since Sunday. Uganda's president said it had crashed in bad weather in the border region between the two countries.
Garang's death would be a heavy blow to the January peace deal that ended a 21-year civil war between the mostly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south in which some 2 million people died. |
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