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| Plane crash in Pakistan kills 152 people on board |
| 2010-07-29 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] All those on board a Pakistani passenger jet died Wednesday when the Airbus 321 crashed in the hills of Islamabad while trying to land on a flight from Karachi, a cabinet minister said. "Nobody survived," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Express TV. Earlier reports had said that they were a handful of survivors, but asked whether all those aboard had died, Malik replied: "Yes, all of them are dead". Imtiaz Elahi, the chairman of the Capital Development Authority, told The Associated Press that earlier reports of five survivors from the crash were wrong and that all aboard died. The Capital Development Authority has a group that responds to emergency situations. There were conflicting reports over the number of people on the doomed plane. The civil aviation authority said there were 152 while police said there were 149. Islamabad's police chief Bani Amin said that rescue workers had recovered all bodies from the site of the plane crash, in densely wooded hills outside the Pakistani capital. "All bodies have been recovered. I cannot give you an exact number because most of them are in pieces," Bani Amin told AFP. "According to our information, there were 149 people on board. The search is continuing. Maybe we will find one or two more," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Okay... every time there is a big plane crash in Pakiwakiland I have to ask what person they don't want anybody talking to was on it. After all Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and others come to mind. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-07-29 01:45 |