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30 killed in plane crash in Iraq -- Turkish official
09 Jan 2007 13:33:55 GMT
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ANKARA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Thirty people were killed on Tuesday when their Moldovan plane crashed while trying to land in foggy conditions in Iraq, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said.

The Antonov-26 plane, which took off from the Turkish city of Adana early on Tuesday, had been carrying about 30 Turkish workers at the time, Turkey's state Anatolian news agency reported.

The Foreign Ministry official said the crash occurred near Balad, the main U.S. military aviation hub in Iraq about 80 km (50 miles) north of the capital Baghdad.


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