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RAWALPINDI / WAM
A Pakistani military aircraft on a training flight crashed in a built-up area in the garrison city of Rawalpindi killing all five crew members and 12 civilians and setting off a blaze that left a pile of smoking rubble, Reuters has reported.
A statement from the Pakistani military said the aircraft was on a routine training flight when it crashed but there was no immediate word on the cause of the
accident.
Military and civilian rescue workers took at least 12 injured civilians to hospitals in the city and extinguished the fire, leaving the smoking ruins of a house which appeared to have borne the brunt of the crash.
“The plane hit the side of the building and the structure it has crashed into has completely collapsed,†an army officer said. The site, in a village on the edge of a housing development called Bahia Town, was surrounded by military and rescue service vehicles and security officials pushed back a crowd of bystanders, Reuters added.