More than 40 people are feared to have died from a plane crash with 72 people on board hitting the ground in a fireball in a Christmas Day crash landing in Kazakhstan.
There were 67 passengers and five crew members on board the Azerbaijan Airlines flight from Azerbaijan's capital Baku to the Russian City of Grozny.
Footage of the crash showed the plane bursting into flames as it hit the ground and thick black smoke then rising.
Bloodied and bruised passengers could be seen stumbling from a piece of the fuselage that had remained intact.
The plane was in flames and broke into several parts on landing in Aktau, in western Kazakhstan. The country's emergencies ministry said its personnel were putting out a fire at the site.
The health ministry's regional department said in a statement THAT At the moment, 14 survivors have been taken to the regional hospital, including five in intensive care.
The ministry later said that 28 people survived the crash, seven of which are in serious condition. At least 22 survivors are being treated in hospital and two of those are children, according to the ministry.
Azerbaijan Airlines, the country's flag carrier, says the Embraer 190 had 'made an emergency landing around three kilometers from Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
Kazakh ministry says on Telegram a plane doing the Baku-Grozny route crashed near the city of Aktau belongs to Azerbaijan Airlines.
Source: Mail online
