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    IRI/KGZ – Kyrgistan basketball team on plane that crashed

    TEHRAN (FIBA Asia U18 Championship) - Ten members of the Kyrgistan basketball team that was supposed to play at this week’s FIBA Asia U18 Championship in Tehran were killed in a plane crash on Sunday. Fifty-six of the 83 people on the flight died in the accident, which is still under investigation. Four members of the Kyrgyz delegation, ...

    TEHRAN (FIBA Asia U18 Championship) - Ten members of the Kyrgistan basketball team that was supposed to play at this week’s FIBA Asia U18 Championship in Tehran were killed in a plane crash on Sunday.

    Fifty-six of the 83 people on the flight died in the accident, which is still under investigation.

    Four members of the Kyrgyz delegation, including the head of the delegation, his son and two players, are understood to have survived the crash.

    The plane, a Boeing 737, crashed near the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek soon after leaving Manas International Airport.

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