2025 Samaritan's Purse Cessna 208 hijacking

Quand

2 déc. 2025

Type

Événement

Coordonnées

7.72° N, 27.98° E

Placé à : area around the site its text names, Wau Airport.

2025 Samaritan's Purse Cessna 208 hijacking: A gunman demanding to be flown to Chad hijacks a Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft owned by Samaritan's Purse that was carrying out a humanitarian relief mission from Juba to Maiwut County. He is arrested at Wau Airport during a refueling stop.

Airport in Wau, South Sudan

Wau Airport is a civilian airport that serves the city of Wau, South Sudan and surrounding communities. Feeder Airlines has three return flights a week between Khartoum-Wau-Juba. Southern Star Airlines used to provide service on Wednesdays and Sundays to Juba; however, this service has been suspended in 2011 when the airline ceased flying.

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