Garang crash probe delayed again

Dec 29, 2005 (KHARTOUM) — The commission investigating the helicopter crash that caused the death of John Garang has again delayed its report.

President Omar al-Bashir has agreed to extend the deadline for the Sudanese fact-finding commission for the third time, without explaining what the cause of the delay was.

Bashir was briefed on Tuesday 27 December by Abel Alier, the chairman of the committee, which was established last August. The investigation is now scheduled to end in February 2006.

Garang was killed on his way back to southern Sudan after his visit to Uganda when Ugandan presidential helicopter crashed in the Imatong Mountain region in southern Sudan on July 30, 2005.

(Juba Post/ST)