{"id":94648,"date":"2020-05-22T07:41:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/pakistan-passenger-plane-with-an-estimated-98-people-onboard-crashes\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T07:41:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:41:10","slug":"pakistan-passenger-plane-with-an-estimated-98-people-onboard-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/pakistan-passenger-plane-with-an-estimated-98-people-onboard-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Passenger plane with an estimated 98 people onboard crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/May\/22\/Pakistan%20Airplan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane, with an estimated 98 people onboard, crashed in Karachi&#39;s Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez confirmed the crash and added that the A320 Airbus was carrying 90 passengers and 8 crew members from Lahore to Karachi on PK 8303.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dawn news, Saad Edhi, spokesperson of the Edhi Foundation, said they have shifted 13 bodies from the plane to different hospitals. Around 25-30 injured people, who are residents of the area, have also been brought to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He said nothing concrete could be said about the number of deceased and survivors as of now.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the crash, Sindh Minister of Health &amp; Population Welfare declared an emergency in all major hospitals of Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan President Ashraf Ghani reacted to the incident via a tweet: &quot;My heart goes out to the families of victims who lost their lives in the PIA plane crash in Karachi. I offer my sincere commiserations to the people and the government of Pakistan. Afghans stand with you in this moment of grief&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Mohammad Hanif Atmar had tweeted: &quot;Express my deepest condolences to HE @SMQureshiPTI on the tragic loss of lives in plane crash in Karachi today. May Allah bless the souls of the deceased and console families and friends affected!<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane, with an estimated 98 people onboard, crashed in Karachi s Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}