"The tragic news of the BSF plane crash near Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi is extremely painful. Rushing to the crash site immediately," Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted.
The incident took place near the Shahabad railway station at Dwarka in southwest Delhi.
TV footages showed a large number of police and security forces were searching for the dead or survivors at the site of the crash, which was a residential area.
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