国际英语新闻：Pakistani passenger plane crashes, killing 152

The Islamabad-bound Airbus 320 took off the Karachi airport at 7:50 a.m.(local time) and was scheduled to land at the Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport at 9:30 a.m. The plane lost the contact with the control tower of the Islamabad airport at about 9:43 a.m.

A whole battalion of troops, in addition to seven military helicopters, are involved in the rescue work. The crash site is atop the mountains and rescue workers had to walk over an hour to reach the site, said officials.

Rescue workers had to cut down trees to build the pads for the landing of helicopters to lift the victims out of the crash site.

Pakistani women mourn their father after his death in a plane crash on the outskirts of Islamabad.

Two zoo keepers near the crash site told Xinhua that they saw the plane taking very low flight brushing the trees on the ground and the pilots were trying desperately to take the nose up but failed.

Another witness Muhammad Arshad, at Jinnah Supper, a main market near Margalla Hills, said the plane had lost balance, then it went down.

Shortly after the tragedy was reported, Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani announced one-day mourning over the victims killed in the plane crash.

Doctors at a hospital in Islamabad said that the bodies recovered from the plane crash site are mutilated and DNA tests would be carried out for identification. All the hospitals have declared emergency after the tragedy happened.