Iran Plane Blows Tire Injuring 11

An Iranian airliner blew a tire on landing in the country's second-largest city Mashhad early on Sunday, injuring 11 people, three of them seriously, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"Eight people received treatment at the scene and three others were taken to hospital," after the 12:02 am (1932 GMT Saturday) accident at the city's Shahid Hasheminejad airport, the news agency quoted the head of the provincial medical emergency center, Reza Vafainejad, as saying.

The Mahan Air flight from the capital was carrying 230 passengers, the news agency added, without specifying the model of aircraft.

Iran, which has been under years of international sanctions, has suffered a string of serious air accidents over the past decade that have killed more than 900 people.

The country operates an ageing fleet of aircraft which is poorly maintained in the face of a Western embargo on the sale of spare parts.

In June, a Mahan Air plane with faulty landing gear made an emergency landing on foam at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, without causing any casualties.