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121 killed in two plane crashes

Lima/Diyarbakir (Turkey), January 9
A Peruvian airliner with 46 persons on board today crashed on a domestic flight, according to witnesses in the Amazon jungle region near the city of Chachapoyas.

Meanwhile families today began identifying the remains of 75 persons killed after a Turkish Airlines jetliner crashed short of a fog-covered runway in southeastern Turkey. Five survivors aboard the flight from Istanbul were hospitalised after the plane came down yesterday at the airport in the city of Diyarbakir. An American and two Britons are believed to be among the dead. DPA/AP