December 25, (THEWILL) – An Azerbaijan Airline plane carrying 72 people has crashed in Kazakhstan, the country’s emergency ministry said.
The flight was en route from Baku in Azerbaijan to Grozny in Russia but was rerouted due to fog.
It crashed near Aktau airport in the west of the country.
Six people are reported to have survived the crash.
Emergency services were working to put out a fire at the crash site, Kazakhstan’s emergency ministry said.
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