TEHRAN, Dec. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Ninety-four bodies have been found so far in a deadly plane crash in a residential area in the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday, the state television reported.

    But it was not immediately clear how many of them were passengers on board and how many residents on the ground, the
report said.

    Meanwhile, local official sources said all 94 people aboard the Iranian military transport plane were killed in the crash.
 
    The C-130 military aircraft, bound for the Gulf seaport city of Bandar Abbas, plunged into a 10-story building at 2:10 p.m. (10:40 GMT) after a failed attempt for an emergency landing.

    Technical problems were reported shortly after the plane took off from Tehran's Mehrabad international airport, located in a densely-populated residential area in the west of Tehran, and forced the pilots to make the emergency landing.

    The state television also said the building, housing some 250 people, was still on fire and that fire-fighters were trying to rescue people trapped inside.

    It added that more than 90 of the wounded had been sent to hospital and some were in critical condition while 35 sustained moderate wounds.

    Meanwhile, Tehran Radio reported that at least 25 residents were killed on the ground and 15 others injured and emergency
workers had sealed off the area.

    Shahram Alamdari, head of the Relief and Rescue Center of the Red Crescent Society, was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying that the apartment building was engulfed in blaze.

    Iran, a country long under economic sanctions of the United States, has witnessed a high rate of air crash due to the lack of plane spare parts and maintenance, especially for those US-made planes.

    All of Iran's C-130 aircraft and other US-made planes were imported during the pro-US Shah's reign, which came to an end with the country's Islamic Revolution in 1979.

    On June 25, 2003, a military C-130 crashed 30 km south of Tehran, killing 7. Enditem