Seven people, including four foreigners, died and one crew member survived when a cargo plane works for Juba Air crashed on Friday near Malakal town in the Upper Nile State.

Baha Eddine Akasha of the Juba Air’s management told Miraya FM that the Antinov cargo plane crashed due to bad weather.

He said that the pilot lost contact with the air traffic control before the plane fell down.

Meanwhile, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) dispatched a team to the crash scene to probe the incident.