Among the victims are two Chinese, one Indian and two Ugandan nationals. The passengers were employees of the Greater Pioneer Operating Company Ltd. oil company. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has ordered an investigation into the plane crash.

Only one person has survived a plane crash in South Sudan, which killed 20 oil workers who were on board, the government said. The plane, which was heading to the capital, Juba, crashed three minutes after take-near the oil fields in Unity State on Wednesday morning,

An official says at least 18 people have been killed when a small plane crashed in a remote part of South Sudan