TEHRAN, June 25: A military plane crashed outside Tehran on Wednesday, killing all seven people on board, state-run radio reported.

The C-130 transport plane crashed near the Rudshour River, about 50 kilometres southwest of the capital, Tehran radio said.

“Unfortunately, all of the seven people aboard the plane were killed,” the radio quoted Tehran deputy governor Ebrahim Rezaei Babadi as saying.

The cause was “technical failure,” the radio report said.

State-run Tehran television quoted interior ministry official Ali Asghar Ahmadi as saying the plane was carrying two pilots and five flight students. It crashed in the early afternoon, he said.

About 20 armed soldiers cordoned off the crash site, preventing journalists and photographers from approaching the wreckage.—APP