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'Many dead' in Iranian air crash | |
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An Iranian passenger plane carrying 150 people has crashed in the north of the country, Irna state news agency says. | An Iranian passenger plane carrying 150 people has crashed in the north of the country, Irna state news agency says. |
An Iranian official said the plane broke into pieces and all those on board are feared dead. | An Iranian official said the plane broke into pieces and all those on board are feared dead. |
The plane, reportedly a Tupolev, came down near Jannatabad village in Qazvin province, state television said. | |
The Caspian Airlines plane was travelling from the Iranian capital, Tehran, to Yerevan in Armenia when it crashed, Iranian media reports say. | |
"The 7908 Caspian flight crashed 16 minutes after its take-off from the International Imam Khomeini Airport," Iran's Aviation Organisation spokesman, Reza Jafarzadeh, was quoted by Press TV as saying. | |
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