119 killed in Tehran plane crash

An Iranian military transport plane with 94 people on board crashed into a 10-storey building in the suburbs of the capital Tehran on Tuesday, state television reported.

Tehran radio said 25 people were killed, 15 injured among the residents of building. The mayor of Tehran said no one on the plane survived.

“The building is on fire now,” the television report said, adding that firefighters were trying to save people trapped inside the building in the Azari residential district.

The C-130 aircraft hit the building while coming in to land at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport, state television reported.

The plane, which belonged to the Army’s air force, was carrying 84 passengers and 10 crew, the television report said.

It crashed due to a technical failure as it was trying to make an emergency landing, the report said.

The plane crashed into the Towhid residential complex.

It had taken off from Mehrabad airport and was heading to Bandar Abbas, a port city in southern Iran.