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Passenger aircraft crashed close to the town of Aktau.
An passenger aircraft flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed close to the town of Aktau in Kazakhstan, the Central Asian nation’s Emergencies Ministry stated in a press release.
Fourteen folks had survived the crash and had been hospitalised, in line with the native well being officers.
“For the time being, 14 survivors have been taken to the regional hospital, together with 5 in intensive care,” the well being ministry’s regional division stated in a press release. The Emergencies Ministry stated hearth 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 pressured to make an emergency touchdown roughly 3 km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh metropolis of Aktau.
Russian information companies stated the aircraft had been rerouted as a result of fog in Grozny.
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