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Passenger plane with 83 onboard crashes in Taliban-held Afghanistan area

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Siddhant Pandey

A passenger plane crashed in the Deh Yak district of Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Monday.

According to Arif Noori, spokesperson for the provincial governor, the plane crashed at 1:10 pm local time due to technical reasons. Reportedly, the plane later caught fire.

The plane was said to be carrying 83 passengers. However, the fate of the passengers was not immediately known.

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Plane was flying from Herat to Ghazni: Report

Official sources in the Ghazni province told Al Jazeera that the plane went down while it was en route to Ghazni from Herat.

Reportedly, three senior Afghan government officials had previously said that the plane that crashed belonged to the state-owned Ariana Afghan Airlines.

They said the plane crashed in the Sado Khel area of Deh Yak district at 1:10 pm (2:10 pm IST).