Air Crash in Turkey Kills 72 People: Interior Minister

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Air Crash in Turkey Kills 72 People: Interior Minister

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Turkish Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu noted late Wednesday that a total of 72 people were killed in the earlier air crash at Diyarbakir airport, in southeastern Turkey, CNN-Turk television reported.

The Turkish Airlines plane crashed on landing in heavy fog at the Diyarbakir airport.

Local Anatolia news agency quoted the airlines' officials as saying there were 72 passengers and five crew members, including two pilots, aboard the RG-100 four-engine plane en route from Istanbul.

The interior minister noted that five people were believed to have survived the crash.

Earlier, the CNN-Turk television channel reported that only eight ornine out of the people on board may survive.

Diyarbakir airport is a wide expanse of land shared between military and civil air traffic. Civilian flights land more than a kilometre from the main terminal and passengers are carried to and from their flights by buses.

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