TEHRAN: At least two adults died and one child was missing after a passenger plane carrying 171 people crash landed at Tehran's main airport on Wednesday night.
Another 80 people were taken to hospital with injuries, mostly broken limbs sustained by jumping from the Boeing 707 when it came to a standstill.
"The bodies of two adults were found and searches for a missing four-year-old child continue," said Reza Jafarzadeh, spokesman for Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation, said.
Passengers said the child had fallen into a river near the runway and drowned during the chaotic evacuation of the aircraft. The child's father said he had lost hold of his son while trying to save another child from drowning.
The aircraft's "black box" flight recorder has been found and this will help identify the cause of the crash.