Azerbaijani airliner, with 67 aboard, crashes in Kazakhstan, 32 survive

The Embraer 190 aircraft made an emergency landing 3km from the city, Azerbaijan Airlines said earlier

- Associated Press

BAKU: An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashed on Wednesday near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, leaving at least 32 survivors, according to officials. Over 30 people may be dead.

The plane was en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus.

Kazakhstan's Emergency Ministry said in a Telegram statement that those on board included five crew. A total of 29 survivors, including two children, have been hospitalized, the ministry told Russia's state news agency, RIA Novosti.

Another Russian news agency, Interfax quoted medical workers as saying that four bodies have been recovered and emergency workers at the scene as saying that both pilots, according to a preliminary assessment, died in the crash.

The Embraer 190 aircraft made an emergency landing 3km from the city, Azerbaijan Airlines said earlier.