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A military plane has crashed in an area controlled by Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan, according to a senior official at the country’s Civil Aviation Authority.
“The plane was apparently dispatched for military operations and it took off from Afghanistan territory,†said Ghulam Masoom Massumi, the director of air traffic management at the authority, by phone. “The military plane was not a cargo plane.†Massumi added.
He gave no details of the size and make of plane or the number of people on board.
Earlier in the day, Afghanistan’s second Vice President, Sarwar Danish, had said that a passenger plane owned by the country’s national carrier, Ariana Afghan Airlines, crashed in the Deh Yak district of Ghazni province.