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Senior police officers among seven dead in Iran plane crash

By REUTERS

OCTOBER 12, 2014 11:25

DUBAI - An Iranian police plane crashed late on Saturday killing four high-ranking officers investigating the deaths of police in a province that borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, state news agency IRNA reported.

Three crew also died in the crash, underscoring concerns about Iran's aging aircraft fleet which Tehran has been unable to modernize due to international sanctions.

All seven on board perished when the twin-engined turbo-prop Commander aircraft went down in the mountains outside Sistan-Baluchistan's capital of Zahedan, IRNA said.

Two generals including Mahmoud Sadeghi, a senior officer in charge of investigations, and a colonel, were among the dead, Fars news reported.

The police were traveling from Tehran to investigate the killing of four Iranian police officers in the province.

Impoverished and relatively lawless Sistan-Baluchistan has been plagued by unrest from disgruntled Sunni Muslim minorities in predominantly Shi'ite Iran and is rife with drug and arms traffickers.

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