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Toll rises in Iran military aircraft crash
 An Iranian military aircraft with at least 94 people on board has crashed into a densely populated district of Tehran and exploded, setting a 10-storey building ablaze. The C-130 transport plane crashed on Tuesday into a residential area killing many passengers and people on the ground, state television and witnesses said. Mojtaba Mirabdollahi, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, put the death toll at 116.A government official estimated the apartment block housed about 250 people. An interior ministry spokesman said he could confirm six to 10 deaths among those on the ground. Posted by: Fred 2005-12-07 |
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