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Scores dead in Kyrgyzstan jet crash

BayBak, Azerbaijan | 1734 days ago | Sunday, 24th August , 2008 , 21:39 [pm] | Azerbaijan

. Eighty-seven people are confirmed to have been killed after a passenger plane crashed at an airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s capital, the country’s health ministry has said.

“According to our latest information, 87 perished and 12 were hospitalised in the trauma unit including two who are in very serious condition,” health ministry spokeswoman Yelena


Eighty-seven people are confirmed to have been killed after a passenger plane crashed at an airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s capital, the country’s health ministry has said.

“According to our latest information, 87 perished and 12 were hospitalised in the trauma unit including two who are in very serious condition,” health ministry spokeswoman Yelena Bayalinova told the AFP news agency.

The Boeing-737 operated by Itek Air, a Kyrgyz air company, had been bound for Iran before it crashed shortly after takeoff from Bishkek’s Manas airport, a civil aviation ministry spokesman said

“At the moment rescue teams, fire brigades and medics are rushing to the crash site,” an airbase spokeswoman told RIA.aljazeera

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