Iran crash death toll rises to 128
A military transport plane loaded with Iranian journalists and trying to make an emergency landing slammed into a 10-storey apartment building, ripping open the top of the structure and igniting a huge fire. At least 128 people were killed.
All 94 people on the plane were killed, most of them Iranian journalists heading to cover military manoeuvres in the south. Thirty-four residents of the apartment building also died, and 90 were injured, Tehran state radio said.
