Tehran: Iranian state television reported that a plane crashed in Tehran early today, killing 36 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards, including high-ranking officers.
The plane crashed shortly after taking off from an airport in Tehran, headed for Shiraz, about 1,000 kilometers south of Tehran, the capital, the TV said.
"Some 30 members of the elite Revolutionary guards and six crew members were killed in the crash while they were heading for a military site in southern Iran," state-run television said, reading a statement from the Guards.
Two others were injured in the crash, the statement said.
Earlier, the television had said the number of victims was 38. It did not give any details on the names or ranks of the victims of the crash- the third military air plane crash in the last year.
Another official, Gen Eskandar Moemeni, a deputy police chief, told reporters that the number of dead had increased to 39 after three injured people died in a hospital.
There was no immediate way to determine which number was accurate.
In January, a small military passenger Falcon jet crashed in northwestern Iran, killing the commander of the ground forces of the elite Revolutionary Guards.
That happened just one month after a military transport, a US-made C-130 plane, crashed into a 10-story building near Tehran's Mehrabad airport, killing 115 people.
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