In a highly tragic incident, a passenger plane crashed down in the Deh Yak district of Ghazni province, to the south-west of Kabul in Afghanistan.
As of the early reports, the number of people on board and their fate was not immediately known, nor was the cause of the crash.
The plane was initially reported to have belonged to Ariana Airlines but the company has now denied this.
“Ariana planes that have left, have reached their destination and have not crashed,” a representative for the airline was said, as quoted in reports. “The plane that crashed, therefore, doesn’t belong to Ariana Airlines.”
The mountainous Ghazni province sits in the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains and is bitterly cold in winter.