Iran military plane with 11 on board crashes
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Jan 9, IRNA
Iran-Plane-Crash
Deputy Head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps' (IRGC) Public Relations Department Yadollah Rabiei here Monday confirmed that all 11 people on board a military plane which crashed in northwestern Iran have been martyred.
He added that the IRGC's Ground Forces Commander Ahmad Kazemi, Commander of Rassoulollah Army Division 27 Saeed Mohtadi, Deputy Commander of Ground Forces for Operation Affairs Saeed Soleymani and the Official in Charge of Information for Ground Forces Hanif Montazer-Qaem were among those martyred in the crash.
Also confirmed killed in the crash was the Commander of Artillery Unit Gholam-Reza Yazdani, 2 members of the Ground Forces' Command Office Hamid Azinpour and Mohsen Assadi, Deputy Commander of Ground Forces Safdar Reshadi along with pilot Abbas Karvandi and IRGC Colonels Ahmad Elhaminejad and Morteza Basiri.
The plane, a Falcon, crashed in Aidinlou village, 12 kilometers west of Orumiyeh, capital of the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan Monday morning.
More details will be provided as they are brought to light in an ongoing investigation.
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