Armenia working to find out whether its citizens were aboard Ukrainian plane that crashed in Tehran today
08.01.2020,
10:41
The Armenian Foreign Ministry is working now to find out whether its citizens were aboard a Ukrainian airplane that crashed on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s main airport, killing all 176 people aboard, Anna Naghdalyan, a press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, told Novosti-Armenia news agency.
YEREVAN, January 8. /ARKA/. The Armenian Foreign Ministry is working now to find out whether its citizens were aboard a Ukrainian airplane that crashed on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s main airport, killing all 176 people aboard, Anna Naghdalyan, a press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, told Novosti-Armenia news agency.
Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan expressed deep condolences to the families and friends of the victims in a Twitter post. "Very sad news about the crash of the Boeing-737 aircraft of Ukraine’s International Airlines, which was heading from Tehran to Kiev," he wrote on his Twitter.
The state-run Iranian IRNA news agency quoted Qassem Biniaz, a spokesman for Iran’s Road and Transportation Ministry, as saying that the plane had taken off from Imam Khomeini International Airport in the Iranian capital when a fire struck one of its engines.
The plane carried 167 passengers and nine crew members from different nations on its flight to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The crash killed all on board, Iranian emergency officials and Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said. -- 0--
Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan expressed deep condolences to the families and friends of the victims in a Twitter post. "Very sad news about the crash of the Boeing-737 aircraft of Ukraine’s International Airlines, which was heading from Tehran to Kiev," he wrote on his Twitter.
The state-run Iranian IRNA news agency quoted Qassem Biniaz, a spokesman for Iran’s Road and Transportation Ministry, as saying that the plane had taken off from Imam Khomeini International Airport in the Iranian capital when a fire struck one of its engines.
The plane carried 167 passengers and nine crew members from different nations on its flight to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The crash killed all on board, Iranian emergency officials and Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said. -- 0--
