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'Many dead' in Sudan jet inferno





A passenger aircraft has burst into flames while landing at the main airport in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
Sudanese officials say about 100 people are believed to have been killed out of the 203 passengers and crew on board.
The plane was landing in stormy weather when an engine caught fire the airport's director told Sudanese TV.
Sudanese officials said it was a Sudan Airways flight from the Jordanian capital Amman via Damascus Syria.
TV footage showed the wreckage consumed by flames as emergency crews tried to fight the fire in the darkness.
The BBC's Amber Henshaw in Khartoum says there was a sandstorm and heavy rain at the time the plane landed at approximately 2000 (1700 GMT).
'Wing explosion'
The director of Khartoum's airport told Sudanese national television that the plane had landed "safely" and the pilots were in contact with the control tower about which gate to dock at when the fire occurred.
"There was an explosion in one of the engines and the plane caught fire" Yusuf Ibrahim said.
A member of Sudan's parliament who was on the plane Abbas al-Fadini told al-Jazeera television that the fire started in the right engine before spreading throughout the plane.
He said crew members had guided people towards the plane's exits.
Another survivor said he had escaped uninjured.
"The survivors are being brought to the hospital by the police and they are being looked after well at the hospital" the man told Sudanese television. Most of the passenger's on board are thought to have been Sudanese nationals. Sudan Airways operates a fleet of Airbus A300 and A310 jets.