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Passenger plane crashes in Afghanistan Afghan plane crash: Mystery over crash in Taliban territory
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A passenger plane has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, according to officials. A plane has crashed and caught fire in south-west Afghanistan, officials say.
The aircraft came down in the Deh Yak district of Ghazni province, to the south-west of Kabul, a provincial spokesman told local media. The aircraft came down in Ghazni province's Deh Yak district, south-west of the capital Kabul, in an area with a strong Taliban presence.
The plane crashed and caught fire due to technical reasons, the spokesman said. Local officials initially said it was a passenger plane belonging to Afghan airline Ariana.
The plane was initially reported to have belonged to Ariana Airlines but the company has now denied this. However, the airline said all of its fleet were accounted for, and the country's aviation body later announced that no civilian plane had crashed.
"Ariana planes that have left, have reached their destination and have not crashed," a representative for the airline said. "The plane that crashed, therefore, doesn't belong to Ariana Airlines." Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the BBC that his group had not yet located the aircraft.
No details about casualties have been given. The cause of the crash remains unclear, and no details about casualties have been given.