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Afghan plane crash leaves 104 dead by Waheedullah Massoud The wreckage of a missing Afghan jet was found Saturday in mountains east of the capital Kabul with all 104 people on board feared dead, an interior ministry spokesman said. "So far we don't think there are any survivors," interior ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal said. "The plane is completely destroyed." The wreckage was found in mountains 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of Kabul at around 0930 GMT during a joint search operation by Afghan police, army and peacekeeping troops from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), he said. The area has been blanketed by heavy snow this week and Afghan officials said bad weather was preventing search teams from reaching the wreckage on the ground to check for any possible survivors. The private Kam Air Boeing 737 went missing on Thursday during a domestic flight from the western city of Herat to Kabul. ISAF, the NATO-lead peacekeeping force operating in Afghanistan, said it had found the wreckage with the help of a specialized mountain rescue team. "We have found it ... at an altitude of 3,000 meters (9,840 feet)," ISAF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Poulain said. AFP |
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