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A Caspian Airlines passenger jet carrying 168 people has crashed in northwest Iran and all on board are feared dead, Iran's state media says.
State television said the airliner was headed from Tehran, Iran's capital, to Yerevan, the Armenian capital on Wednesday when it crashed near the city of Qazvin.
"The passenger plane was completely destroyed and the wreckage was scattered everywhere," IRNA news agency quoted Masoud Jafari Nasab, Qazvin's police chief, as saying.
"Most probably all passengers on board have been killed in the crash."
Nasab said the aircraft had crashed in farmland near the village of Janat Abad.
A fire brigade official told IRNA that all people on board were killed.
The airliner crashed 16 minutes after take-off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini International airport - at 11:33am local time (0703 GMT).
Press TV, the English-language state-run channel, said the airliner was believed to be a Russian-built Tupolev.
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Map of Iran locating the city of Qazvin
Al-Jazeera
