A Boeing 737 belonging to Ukraine International Airlines has crashed due to technical problems after take-off from Iran’s Imam Khomeini airport with 167 passengers and 9 crew aboard, the semi-official Fars news agency tweeted on Wednesday.
176 PEOPLE KILLED
The death toll had earlier been announced as 167 passengers and 9 crew members, but an airport spokesperson gave the revised figures.
The Boeing 737 plane belonging to a Ukrainian airline crashed near Iran’s Imam Khomeini Airport just after takeoff, Pir Hossein Kolivand, an Iranian emergency official, told state TV.
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The plane was bound for Ukraine’s capital Kiev.
