Sudan VP Garang dies in air crash

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Sudan's former rebel leader, First Vice-President John Garang, has died after going missing while flying back from Uganda to Sudan, a U.N. official said on Monday.

Rudi Muller, head of the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in southern Sudan, told Reuters by telephone from southern Sudan he had been told of Garang's death by the governor of the Lake State in southern Sudan.

"It was the governor of the Lake State who told us in a meeting at 3.30 a.m. that Doctor Garang has been killed in an accident and they would like to brief us in a meeting at 7.30 a.m.," he said.

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