巴基斯坦一架飞机在居民区坠毁，造成12人死亡

巴基斯坦一架飞机在居民区坠毁，造成12人死亡

A trainer plane of Pakistani army crashed at a residential area on early Tuesday morning in Pakistan's eastern district of Rawalpindi, killing at least 12 persons and leaving 10 others injured, local media and military said.

当地媒体和军方称，巴基斯坦军方一架教练机周二凌晨在拉瓦尔品第东部一个居民区坠毁，造成至少12人死亡，另有10人受伤。

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Pakistani army's media wing, said in a statement that the trainer plane of Pakistan Army Aviation was on its routine training mission when it crashed on the outskirts of Rawalpindi city.

巴基斯坦军方媒体部门三军公共关系(ISPR)在一份声明中说，巴基斯坦陆军航空教练机在拉瓦尔品第市郊区坠毁时，正在执行例行训练任务。

All five people, including two pilots, have died in the crash, said the ISPR.

ISPR说，包括两名飞行员在内的所有五人都在坠机中丧生。

According to the reports, the training jet crashed at a residential area of Jabbi village and destroyed at least four houses, which caught fire after the crash.

据报道，这架教练机坠毁在贾比村的一个居民区，摧毁了至少四所房屋，坠机后房屋起火。

Yousaf Awan, an eyewitness who entered the core site after 1 hour of the accident, told Xinhua that the plane crashed on a house and half of the house totally collapsed, severely damaging adjoining five to six makeshift houses surrounding it.

事故发生一小时后进入核心区域的目击者优素福阿万(Yousaf Awan)对记者说，飞机撞上了一所房子，房子的一半完全倒塌，严重损坏了周围5至6座临时搭建的房屋。

Afterwards, a fire broke out within a 100-meter radius, and it was later controlled.

随后，方圆100米以内发生火灾，火势得到控制。

Rescue teams, police and security forces rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and injured to hospitals. District Emergency Officer Abdur Rehman told media that they have shifted 12 bodies and 10 wounded to three different hospitals in Rawalpindi city.

救援队、警察和安全部队赶到现场，将遇难者遗体和伤者转移到医院。拉瓦尔品第地区急救官员拉赫曼对媒体说，他们已经把12具尸体和10名伤者转移到拉瓦尔品第市的三家不同的医院。

An emergency has been declared in all the hospitals in Rawalpindi and in the neighboring capital city Islamabad. The emergency official feared that the death toll might further rise as six of the wounded are in critical condition due to severe burn injuries.

拉瓦尔品第和邻近首都伊斯兰堡的所有医院都宣布进入紧急状态。这位紧急官员担心，由于6名伤者严重烧伤，伤势严重，死亡人数可能会进一步上升。

An eyewitness named Raheem told Xinhua on the spot that the plane was descending with a strange sound and it made a circle over the area before crashing at the residential area.

一位名叫拉希姆的目击者当场告诉新华社，飞机在降落时发出奇怪的声音，并在该地区上空盘旋，然后坠毁在居民区。

Another eyewitness, Mehtab, said that he saw rescuers shift at least 20 people whose bodies were completely burnt in the fire.

另一名目击者梅赫塔布说，他看到救援人员转移了至少20名在大火中被烧伤的人。

Fire fighters have extinguished the fire and rescue teams are now removing debris of the collapsed houses to find out if there were other people buried underneath, the reports added.

消防队员已经扑灭了大火，救援队正在清除倒塌房屋的残骸，以查明是否还有其他人埋在下面。

The army media wing has not disclosed the reason for the crash yet.

军方媒体还没有透露事故的原因。