JANAT ABAD, Iran - Relief workers scoured farmlands Wednesday seeking human remains amid the debris of the crashed Iranian airliner while shocked relatives looked on, hoping that at least the remains of their loved ones might be found.

But the news the rescuers brought back was bleak.

“There is not a single piece which can be identified. There is not a single finger of anybody left,” said one relief worker, standing next to a body bag filled with human flesh.

The Caspian Airline Soviet-era designed Tupolev Tu-154 plane caught fire mid-air and crashed Wednesday morning into farmlands in the village of Janat Abad in Iran’s northwestern province of Qazvin, just minutes after it took off from Tehran for the Armenian capital of Yerevan.

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