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- Mar 13, 2003
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BBC - Twenty-five people have been killed in a bus crash in Sudan, including the coach of one of the country's top football clubs. It happened when the Al-Merreikh FC football team's bus collided head-on with a minibus, about 60 km southeast of the capital, Khartoum.

The footballers were on their way back to the capital after a first division football match at Kassala, near the border with Eritrea.

Coach Siddeiq al-Umdah died along with two other players and the team's bus driver, according to Sudanese television.

The Sudanese news agency, Suna, reports that 21 bodies have yet to be identified,

Several other people from both vehicles were injured.

Al-Merreikh FC is the only club in Sudan to have won the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1989.

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