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Sunday, January 18, 2015
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, January 18, 2015
35 Syrian soldiers die in plane crash
At least 35 Syrian soldiers are killed overnight when an army cargo plane crashed in bad weather in the northwest of the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state media say.
The plane crashed after hitting electricity lines in heavy fog in Idlib province.
But Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front claims on Twitter that it shot down the aircraft.
Syrian state media report the crash without giving a death toll.
— AFP
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