At least 14 people died when a Bek Air plane with 95 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday, killing at least fourteen people, the government said Friday.
“There are 14 dead at the (crash) site,” Almaty city government said in a statement via its official channel on the Telegram messenger app.
It added that a further 17 patients were being treated in hospital in a “serious condition”.
The Fokker 100 aircraft was heading for the capital, Nur-Sultan, and “lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence” before hitting a two-storey building, Kazakhstan’s Civil Aviation Committee said in a statement.
According to the Emergencies Committee, at least nine people were killed. The government and Almaty airport said emergency services were working at the site to get survivors out.
A Reuters reporter travelling to the airport said there was thick fog in the area.
Photographs from the crash site published by media showed the damaged plane with large cracks in its body next to a house half-demolished by the impact.
