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一架客机坠毁于巴基斯坦首都

Reports are coming in that a plane has crashed in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

报道称,一架飞机坠毁在巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰堡。

Initial information suggests it was flying from Turkey to Islamabad via Karachi with more than 150 people on board.

Pakistani television is showing images of smoke arising from a hillside in the Margalla Hills district in poor weather conditions.

A huge rescue effort has been launched. Details are still emerging.

"There were 146 passengers and six crewmen on board. We are gathering information. We have no more details," Mubarik Shah, spokesman of the state-run Civil Aviation Authority, told the Reuters news agency.