Saturday, May 22, 2010

Pakistan sends condolences to India on plane crash

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GEO 436 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Saturday sent its condolences to India’’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the deaths of 159 people in an Air India plane crash earlier in the day. “I was deeply shocked to learn of the tragic crash of an Air India Express aircraft this morning in Karnataka, resulting in the loss of many precious lives,” Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said in the message to Singh. “On behalf of the government and people of Pakistan and on my own behalf, I would like to convey our deepest condolences and sympathies to the bereaved families,” Gilani added. The Air India Boeing 737-800 overshot a runway and crashed in flames near the southern Indian city of Mangalore, killing 159 people in the first major plane crash in India since 2000.

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