UN cargo helicopter crashes in South Sudan war zone
Members of South Sudan's former rebel army, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), walk in the empty northern oil town of Bentiu after capturing it from rebels on January 12, 2014. A UN cargo helicopter crashed Tuesday in South Sudan's warzone region of Unity state, the UN peacekeeping mission said, adding it was "deeply concerned" about the fate of the crew. AFP PHOTO | SIMON MAINA
JUBA, Tuesday
A UN cargo helicopter crashed Tuesday in South Sudan's war-zone region of Unity state, the UN peacekeeping mission said, adding it was "deeply concerned" about the fate of the crew.
The UN mission said it had "dispatched a search and rescue team" to the area, near the northern oil town of Bentiu, one of the hardest fought-over areas in the country's more than eight-month-long civil war.
The MI-8 helicopter generally carries between three and five crew members.
