A Ukrainian plane has crashed in
Iran.
All the 180 passengers and crew
on the civilian airline are feared dead, according to the Iranian Red Crescent.
Aljazeera quotes the Iranian
media as saying the Boeing 737-800 jet crashed near Parand, a suburb southwest
of capital Tehran shortly after take-off.
The crash occurred few hours
after Iran attacked military bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops in retaliation
for the killing of an Iranian general by the U.S.
“An investigation team from the
national aviation department was dispatched to the location after the news was
announced. We will give more reports in upcoming bulletins,” Reza Jafarzadeh,
spokesman of the Iranian Aviation Organisation was quoted as telling reporters
in Tehran.
Boeing, which manufactured the
aircraft, said it was “aware of the media reports” of the incident, and it is
“gathering more information.”
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