A Sudanese airliner crashed early Tuesday near Sudan's Red Sea coast, leaving a little boy as the sole survivor among the 116 passengers and crew aboard the plane bound for Khartoum, officials said.

Among those who died in the crash of the Sudan Airways Boeing 737 were a senior military officer, an MP and eight foreigners, including three Indians, a Chinese and a Briton, airline officials said.

Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail, speaking during a visit to Mozambique, charged that a US embargo was responsible for the crash because it denied Khartoum the spare parts needed to service Boeing planes.

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The governor, correcting an earlier report that the sole survivor was nine months old, said the boy was aged three.
�The boy lost his right leg and is suffering from burns. He has been hospitalised in Port Sudan Hospital and doctors said his condition is stable,� said the governor of Sudan's Red Sea province, Hatem Al Sammani. Jordan Times July 9, 2003