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Plane crash in Russia, kills 16

The L-410 crashed near a city in Russia’s Tatarstan region. The accident happened on Sunday (October 10). 16 people were killed and seven injured. The news agency RIA quoted the emergency services as saying.

According to the news agency TSS, Russia declared a state of emergency, there was a group of parachute jumpers on the plane. Seven people have been rescued alive from the rubble.

The plane was a Let L-410 Turbolet, which is a twin-engine short-range transport aircraft. The crash took place at about 9:23am (06:23 GMT).

Images published by the ministry showed the aircraft broken in half with a severely dented nose.

The local health ministry said that the seven survivors are in hospital, one is in “very serious condition”, RIA Novosti reported.

Russian aviation safety standards have improved in recent years but accidents, especially involving ageing planes in far-flung regions, are not uncommon.

Last month, an ageing Antonov An-26 transport plane crashed in the Russian far east, killing six people.

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