Scores Dead in Tehran Military Plane Crash
An Iranian military plane carrying at least 94 people crashed into a densely populated district of Tehran on Tuesday, setting fire to an apartment block housing about 250 residents, a local government official said.
The official, who asked not to be named, said all 94 people on the C-130 transport aircraft were feared dead.
“The lives of 250 people are at risk,†he added, referring to the residents of the 10-story building hit by the plane.
The semi-official Fars News agency said at least 40 bodies had been retrieved from the crash site in southern Tehran.
“All the people on the plane must be dead. It was horrible, all the bodies were burned and crushed,†a policeman at the scene said.
But another policeman said at least one man had been pulled alive from the wreckage. He said the survivor, who had been on the plane, was on fire but that he and other rescuers had extinguished the flames with a blanket.
Source: MSNBC.
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