Iranian airlines confirms plane wreckage found

Earlier today spokesman of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Bragedier General Ramezan Sharif announced that the wreckage of the crashed ATR plane was spotted.

Also an official responsible for rescue and relief in the Iranian Red Crescent Morteza Salimi said the plane crash site had been spotted, hoping that rescue teams arrive to the crash scene in few hours.

An ATR passenger plane belonging to Aseman Airline crashed somewhere close to Semirom, south of Isfahan province, on Sunday when it was flying from Tehran to Yasouj.

All 60 passengers and 6 crew members of the plane are feared dead in the incident.

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