Watan-A passenger plane crashed on Sunday in the province of Badakhshan, northeast Afghanistan. The Anadolu Agency reported that the plane was Indian, contrary to what other sources claimed, denying its Indian origin.

According to Aamaj News, citing Afghan sources, a passenger plane crashed in northeastern Afghanistan while en route to Moscow.

The agency mentioned that the plane crashed in a mountainous region in the province of Badakhshan due to a technical malfunction, without providing any further details about the aircraft model or the estimated number of people on board.

Activists circulated footage they claimed to be the initial moments of the Indian passenger plane crash.

Emergency Response Deployment

Zabihullah Amiri, the Director of Culture and Media in Badakhshan, stated, “Villagers informed us of the incident in the province adjacent to Tajikistan, China, and Pakistan, and we have dispatched an emergency response team to the site.”

He added that the crash site is “about 8 hours away by road” from the capital of the province, Fayzabad.