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| File photo of Sudanese 1st-Vice
President John
Garang | KAMPALA,
Aug. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Sudanese Vice President and former rebel leader John
Garang was killed in an air crash, President Omar el-Bashir said in a statement
on Monday.
The statement was made following a meeting of the Sudanese
Council of Ministers chaired by Bashir and attended by some officials of the
Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) led by Garang.
The crash occurred when Garang left Uganda by helicopter late on
Saturday to return to Sudan after talks with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
Uganda later said it had lost contact with the aircraft.
The statement said the helicopter carrying Garang from Uganda to
southern Sudan crashed, killing Garang and other six people on board.
It said that the chopper crashed after it hit the Amatong
Mountain in southern Sudan due to bad weather condition.
Garang, key leader of Sudan's southern rebels, had led a
21-year-long war against the Sudanese government.
After signing a landmark comprehensive peace deal with Khartoum
ending the longest civil war in Africa, Garang was sworn in as first vice
president on July 9. Enditem
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| Garang boards a helicopter on his
way to meet Uganda's President at his country home in western Uganda July
29. (Reuters) | | 
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