A passenger plane has crashed in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, local media reported.

The information was provided by Zabihullah Amiri, an official of provincial department of information and culture, a Chinese news agency reported quoting a local media.

A team has been rushed to the accident site near Topkhana area of Kuran-wa-Munjan district, Amiri said.

The passenger plane was reportedly en route to Moscow has crashed in the Wakhan region of Badakhshan on Jan 20, and was crashed in Topkhaneh Mountain this morning.

Earlier, it was reported that the plane belonged to India, but later, the ministry of civil aviation confirmed that the ill-fated plane did not belong to any Indian airlines.

"The unfortunate plane crash that has just occurred in Afghanistan is neither an Indian Scheduled Aircraft nor a Non Scheduled (NSOP)/Charter aircraft. It is a Moroccan registered small aircraft. More details are awaited," tweeted, ministry of civil aviation.

“As per available information, the crashed aircraft is a DF-10 (Dassault Falcon) small aircraft registered in Morocco. It is not an aircraft of Indian carriers. The aircraft was an air ambulance and was flying from Thailand to Moscow and did refuelling at Gaya Airport,” said a senior MoCA official.

According to Afghan media, a plane bound for Moscow crashed in the Wakhan region of Badakhshan in Afghanistan.

The head of information and culture for the Taliban in Badakhshan has confirmed the incident, revealing that the passenger plane went down in the Topkhane Mountain, spanning across the Kuran-Manjan and Zibak districts within the province.

There were two pilots and four passengers on the aircraft, as per reports.

As of the current moment, official sources have not disclosed information regarding casualties or the cause of the crash.

The Taliban's police command in Badakhshan has reported that the plane, which disappeared from radar the night before, crashed in the elevated mountains of the Topkhana area.

Afghan's local TV channel stated that this region covers the Zibak and Kuran-Munjan districts of the province.

(Source: IANS)

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