A passenger aircraft with 72 folks on board crashes in Kazakhstan | International | EUROtoday

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft with 72 folks on board crashed this Wednesday close to town of Aktau, in Kazakhstan, close to the coast of the Caspian Sea, in response to the Kazakh Ministry of Emergencies, cited by a number of businesses. Russian. The broken aircraft had taken off from Baku, the Azerbaijani capital, and was heading to the Russian metropolis of Grozny, within the Chechnya area, within the south of the nation. Kazakh authorities have indicated that there are at the least six survivors among the many passengers.

In an announcement, the Kazakh Ministry provides {that a} fireplace has damaged out on the website of the accident and that emergency personnel deployed to the scene try to place it out.

The Azerbaijan Airlines firm has acknowledged {that a} complete of 72 folks had been touring on the aircraft, an Embraer 190, together with passengers and crew. Previously, Kazakh media had given the determine of 105 folks on board.

Russian businesses report that the aircraft was headed to Grozny, capital of the Chechen Republic, however had been diverted to a different vacation spot on account of thick fog within the metropolis.

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