A Sudanese air force pilot died on Wednesday when his fighter plane crashed

A Sudanese air force pilot died on Wednesday when his fighter plane crashed, the army said, in the country's latest military aviation accident.
  
"Yes, it is a fighter plane that crashed in El Obeid and the pilot of the plane lost his life as a martyr," the Sudanese army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad told AFP. He was not immediately able to provide more details.

El Obeid, in North Kordofan state, is a base for the Sudanese military which is battling an insurgency in adjacent South Kordofan state. The military relies heavily on air power in its campaign against the rebels there and in nearby Blue Nile state.