At least 100 people were killed on Tuesday when an Iranian military C-130 transport plane crashed into a residential area of the capital Tehran, official media and local officials said.
State radio said all 94 passengers and crew died in the crash next to a high-rise housing block and domestic gas supply depot.
Among the dead were 40 state television journalists who were travelling on the plane to the southeastern port city of Charbahar to cover military exercises, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
A police official said at the scene that seven bodies of local residents had been recovered, and more people on the ground were feared dead.
“They suffocated from the smoke,” said Nasser Shabani, a local police commander. – AFP