Foreign Desk | August 22, 1997, Friday
Plane Crash Kills Foes of Afghan Rulers

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ABSTRACT - Leaders of alliance fighting Afghanistan's Taliban Islamic movement die when their plane crashes; there is no immediate suggestion of sabotage, and neither of opposition's most prominent figures, Ahmed Shah Masood and Rashid Dostum, are on board (S) A plane carrying leaders of the alliance fighting Afghanistan's Taliban Islamic movement crashed today, killing everyone on board, a spokesman for the opposition said.
The coalition's new prime minister was among seven officials aboard the transport plane that crashed at an airfield in Bamyan, 90 miles northwest of Kabul, the capital.