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Pakistani plane with over 40 people aboard crashes

Other News Materials 7 December 2016 16:35 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 7

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A Pakistan International Airlines flight carrying more than 40 people crashed on Wednesday en route to Islamabad from the northern city of Chitral, a regional police official said, Reuters reported Dec. 7.

The national flag carrier confirmed in a statement that Flight PK-661 had lost contact with air traffic controllers on Wednesday afternoon.

Laiq Shah, a senior police official in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province told Reuters by telephone that the plane had crashed in that region, near the town of Havelian.

He said rescue personnel were en route to the scene.

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