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December 4, 2018 Tuesday 11:56 AM GMT


Two dead in Armenia warplane crash: ministry

Yerevan, Dec 4 2018

Two crew members died in an Armenian warplane crash on Tuesday, the
ex-Soviet republic's defence ministry said.

Debris of the SU-25 fighter jet "was found in the mountains near the
town of Maralik" in Armenia's western Shirak region, the ministry
spokesman Atrsrun Hovhannisyan said in a Facebook post.

"Two pilots, lieutenant colonel Armen Babayan and major Movses
Manukyan, were killed" in the crash, he said.

The aircraft disappeared from radars on Tuesday morning, minutes after
it took off for a routine training flight, the ministry had reported
earlier.

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