Islamabad, Nov 28 (KUNA) — At least ten people were killed and seven were injured when a Sudan-bound cargo plane crashed Sunday morning in Southern Karachi port city of Pakistan, said officials.
The Russian-made Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft, en route to Sudanese capital Khartoum, crashed at 1:45 am local time into a residential compound in Gulshan-e-Jamal area of the city, only ninety seconds after it had taken off from the Quad-i-Azam airport, said Pervez George, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesman.
Spokesman George said that all eight Russian crew members were killed in the accident and about seven people on ground sustained injuries. Later, the rescuers pulled out two more dead bodies, bringing the death toll to ten.
The plane came from UAE and was loaded with thirty tones of air freight. The cause of the crash was not immediately available.
A huge blaze set off after the crash and it engulfed to nearby two under-construction buildings, where residential apartments and offices for Navy and Air Force were being built. Commodore Khalid of Pakistan Navy said that the fire was extinguished after about an hour.
Local news channels showed burnt debris of plane scattered over an area of one kilometer and rescuers were using huge cranes to find any survivors or buried people. They said that several of the bodies pulled out were mutilated beyond recognition.
This was the second crash in less than a month in Karachi. Earlier, on November 5th, an aircraft of an Italian oil company crashed only minutes after it took-off near the airport. All 21 people on board were killed. (end) amn.asa KUNA 281020 Nov 10NNNN
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