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Passenger airplane crashed close to the town of Aktau.
An passenger airplane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed close to the town of Aktau in Kazakhstan, the Central Asian nation’s Emergencies Ministry stated in an announcement.
Fourteen folks had survived the crash and had been hospitalised, in keeping with the native well being officers.
“In the meanwhile, 14 survivors have been taken to the regional hospital, together with 5 in intensive care,” the well being ministry’s regional division stated in an announcement. The Emergencies Ministry stated fireplace companies had put out the blaze
Azerbaijan Airways stated the Embraer 190 plane, with flight quantity J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya, however had been compelled to make an emergency touchdown roughly 3 km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh metropolis of Aktau.
Russian information companies stated the airplane had been rerouted as a result of fog in Grozny.
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