Dozens feared dead after passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan

Dozens were feared dead Wednesday after a passenger plane carrying 67 people from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed in Kazakhstan, authorities said.

The Azerbaijan Airlines flight, which crashed near Aktau, a city in southwestern Kazakhstan, had 62 passengers and five crew members on board, Kazakhstan’s emergencies ministry said in a post on Telegram. The country's health ministry later published a list of 29 survivors, including two children.

Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported that the passengers were 37 Azerbaijani citizens, 16 Russians, 6 Kazakh citizens, and 3 Kyrgyz citizens, citing the Kazakh Ministry of Transport.

The flight was en route from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny in Russia's Chechnya region but was diverted to the Russian city of Makhachkala, about 100 miles east of Gronzny, due to fog, the press service of the Grozny airport told Russian state news agency TASS.

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