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Urgent: 66 killed in plane crash in central Iran

Xinhua,February 18, 2018 Adjust font size:

TEHRAN, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian passenger plane crashed into the Dena mountain on Sunday morning and all the 66 people on board were killed, the spokesman for the Iranian Aviation Organisation said. Enditem