A military cargo plane crashed near the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Monday, killing 13 people. The plane was carrying meat from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan when it overshot the run-way near Tehran, crashed into a wall and caught fire.

The charred remains of a plane's fuselage with Iranian Air Force colours, its nose wedged through the wall of what appeared to be a house, were seen in photographs.

Wreckage including a landing gear and a mangled jet engine were scattered nearby.

"A (Boeing) cargo 707 plane... exited the runway during the landing and caught fire after hitting the wall at the end of the runway," the army said in a statement released on its website.

Fath airport is in Alborz province, just northwest of Tehran.

The Fars news agency, considered close to the military, earlier said there were 16 people onboard and that only the flight engineer had survived.

State broadcaster IRIB showed footage of burning wreckage.