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,

A small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan's Unity State crashed on takeoff from its oilfield airport on Wednesday, killing 20 people, the region's information minister said. The plane had departed for the capital Juba when it went down,

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.