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Fire and smoke rises from the wreckage of a passenger plane which has crashed in The Margalla Hills on the outskirts of Islamabad. Image Credit: AFP

A commercial Pakistani passenger plane with 152 people on board crashed in bad weather in hills near the capital, Islamabad, on Wednesday, killing many people, officials said.

The Airbus 321, belonging to private airliner Airblue, lost contact with the control room of the Islamabad International Airport at 0443 GMT while flying from the southern port city of Karachi. The plane was carrying 146 passengers and six crewmen.

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