There are fears of mass casualties after a passenger aircraft carrying more than 100 people crashed into a residential area in the Pakistani city of Karachi.
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) jet, carrying 99 passengers and eight crew members, was on its final approach to Karachi airport when it went down in a residential area near Model Colony and disappeared from radar
In This Story: Pakistan
Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.