SADDHA BATOLNI, Pakistan: A Pakistani plane carrying 48 people crashed on Wednesday in the country’s mountainous north and burst into flames killing everyone on board, authorities said, in one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the nation’s history.

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Flight PK661 came down after one of its two turboprop engines failed while traveling from the city of Chitral to Islamabad, the civil aviation authority said.

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