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Iranian passenger plane crashed
A passenger aircraft crashed in northwestern Iran on Wednesday and up to 168 people on board were feared killed.
"153 passengers along with 15 crew were on the plane that crashed," ISNA news agency reported without giving a source.
Earlier Iranian state television said that all 150 people on board had been killed.
The Caspian Airlines aircraft was traveling from Tehran to Yerevan in Armenia when it came down at 11:33 a.m. (0703 GMT) near the city of Qazvin, the official IRNA news agency said.
The plane is said to have crashed 16 minutes after take-off from the capital's Imam Khomeini International airport.
