Tuesday Dec. 6,2005

Iran-Emrooz online reporting from "ISNA" :

An airplane crashed in Tehran !
All of the passenger of the plane are dead ! Most of the passenger were journalists !
Today at lunch time a C130 military airplane with tens of passenger after taking off from Tehran Mehrabad Airport, for the reason of technical problem tried to return to the airport , but later crashed with a ten story building and all its 74-90 passengers plus number of the people living in the building were killed. The airplane passenger were mostly journalists, photo-journalists and .... , they were on their way for a military maneuver in the region of Chahbahar close to Persian Gulf for news coverage.
Most of the victims of this accident were journalists!
According to the " Fars News Agency" in this accident the following journalists and ... were killed:
Mr. Alireza Baradaran, Photo-journalist
Mr. Sadegh Nili, Fars reporter
Mr. Hasan Gharib, photo- journalist
Mr. Alireza Omrani , ISNA reporter
Mr. Mehdi Amir Afzali , IRNA reporter
Mr. Sepahdar Sajedi, IRNA reporter
Mr. Mahmoud Ilbaigi ,Mr. Mahmoud Toran Poshti, Mr. Yahya Mahdavi, Mr. Daryush Shahini and Mr. Ebrahim Baghaie , all from "Central News Unit".
Mr. Alireza Afshar , Mr. Hassan Haidari, Mr. Seyed Mohammad Shirazi, Mr. Morteza Abdian, Mr. Mehdi ahmadi and Mr. Hasan Haidari from "Sima News Channel" .
Mr. Naser Khairkhah in charge of "Good Morning Iran" together with five other member of the production team of " Sima channel # 1" .

The Association of Syndicate Journalists of Iran : 84 journalists have been killed in this plane crash!
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translated by IRAN WATCH CANADA
IRAN WATCH CANADA expresses its condolence to the family of the victims.
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http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news/more/5652/