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'No survivors' after Ukrainian airliner crashes near Tehran

8 Jan 2020, 6:30 AM
'No survivors' after Ukrainian airliner crashes near Tehran
'No survivors' after Ukrainian airliner crashes near Tehran

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TEHRAN, Jan 8 — All 167 passengers and nine crew members on a Ukrainian 737 plane that crashed near Iran's capital Tehran early Wednesday have died, Anadolu Agency quoted a state official.

The death toll had earlier been announced as 170 passengers and 10 crew members, but an airport spokesperson gave the revised figures.

The Boeing 737 plane belonging to a Ukrainian airline crashed near Iran's Imam Khomeini Airport just after takeoff, Pir Hossein Kolivand, an Iranian emergency official, told state TV.

The plane was bound for Ukraine’s capital Kiev.

 

 

— Bernama

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