ANKARA — Two soldiers were killed in a Turkish military training plane crash in the country's central province of Kayseri on Tuesday, said Turkish Defense Ministry.

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"An SF-260D type training aircraft of our Air Force Command, which took off from the 12th Air Transportation Main Base Command in Kayseri for training/testing, was involved in a crash due to an unknown reason," the ministry said in a statement.

The plane crashed in the Hasan Arpa neighborhood of Kocasinan district in Kayseri province, according to the local governorate.