22 Sep 96
11 Dead, 4 Missing In Sudan-Libya Desert
KHARTOUM, Sudan (PANA) - Rescuers have found 11 Sudanese nationals
dead in the Sahara desert in an area between Sudan and Libya, the
official Sudan News Agency, SUNA, reported Sunday quoting the
interior ministry spokesman.
"Eleven bodies were found burried in the same spot where the bus
was," the spokesman, police Gen. Zubair Ibrahim Zubair Said.
They are believed to have died of thirst after their bus got lost in
the desert. He added that four other passengers were "considered
missing."
Two survivors made it to Kufrik. The agency did not give its
location.
The the Libyan registered bus left Dongola, northern Sudan, for
Kufra in Libya, on August 29.
When it failed to reach Kufra on schedule, a search was mounted by a
combined team of the Sudanese ministries of the Interior, Foreign
Affairs, the Northern Sudan State Government and Libyan authorities.
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