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TEHRAN, Sept 1: Twenty-nine people were killed on Friday when an Iranian airliner caught fire after landing in Mashhad, Iran’s civil aviation chief said, lowering earlier reports of up to 80 dead.
Talking to state television, the Civil Aviation Organization’s Nurollah Rezai Niaraki said 29 bodies had been recovered from the plane, 43 people were injured and the rest of the 148 people on board survived unhurt.
He added that some of those injured had been treated as out-patients at Mashhad hospitals.
State television had earlier said the death toll on the flight to Mashhad from Bandar Abbas was at least 80.—AFP
