AT least 17 people have been killed in a plane crash in the Iranian city of Mashhad, the second deadly air crash to hit the Islamic republic in 10 days.
"There was an accident and a fire involving a passenger plane from Tehran to Mashhad that has left 17 people dead and 19 injured," the official IRNA news agency said, quoting the deputy governor of Khorasan province, Ghahreman Rashid.