A commercial airplane carrying 130 people crashed in Rawalpindi just before it was to land at an airport in Islamabad yesterday, according to Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority, which cited poor weather as a possible factor. The Bhoja Air Boeing 737 was on its first flight from Karachi to Islamabad, said authority spokesman Pervaz George, who added that weather conditions in the capital were cloudy. There were no survivors.

Disaster site: Rescuers say the plane’s wreck was ablaze when they arrived at the site with mangled dead bodies, severed body parts, burnt luggage, and small parts of the fuselage strewn all over the place in roughly one square km area. Pic/AFP