In a tragic incident fifteen people were killed and one severely injured when an decade old Boeing 707 military cargo plane crashed while trying to land west of Iran's capital Tehran. The military cargo was reportedly carrying meat.

The Boeing 707 made an emergency landing around 8:30 a.m on Monday and skidded off a runway crashing into a wall separating the Fath Airport from a residential neighborhood and fire immediately engulfed the cargo.

As per reports, seven bodies from the crash had been recovered.

Iran's air force said in a statement that they have started probe of the crash.