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The passenger plane crashed near the city of Aktau.

A passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau, the Central Asian country’s Emergencies Ministry said in a statement.

According to local health officials, 14 people survived the accident and were hospitalized.

“Currently, 14 survivors have been taken to regional hospitals, five of whom are in intensive care units,” the health ministry’s regional department said in a statement. The emergencies ministry said fire services had extinguished the fire

Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 plane, flight number J2-8243, was originally scheduled to fly from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya, but was forced to make an emergency landing about 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) away from the Kazakh city. . Aktau.

Russian news agencies said the plane had changed its route due to heavy fog in Grozny.

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