Passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan

Kathmandu: A passenger plane has crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.

According to Aljazeera, the Central Asian country’s Emergencies Ministry stated the plane was flying from Azerbaijan to Russia.

The local health officials said fourteen people had survived the crash and had been hospitalized.

Meanwhile, the BBC cited Kazakhstan’s emergency ministry as saying there are 25 survivors, 22 of whom have been taken to hospital. The details regarding the casualties are yet to be confirmed.

Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 aircraft, with flight number J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya. The airplane was forced to make an emergency landing approximately 3 km from the Kazakh city of Aktau.

The plane had been rerouted due to fog in Grozny as per the Russian news agencies.

Russia’s Interfax news agency cited Kazakhstan Authorities as saying they began looking into different possible versions of what had happened, including a technical problem.