Russian transport minister says citizens of 9 countries killed in Rostov plane crash

Published March 19, 2016 at 2:11 pm

This handout picture taken and released on March 19, 2016 by Russia's Emergency Ministry shows Russian emergency rescuers and firefighters working at the passengers' jet crash scene behind one of the airplane's wheel at the airport in Rostov-on-Don. All sixty-two people on board a flydubai Boeing 737 were killed when the plane crashed and burst into flames as it was landing in Rostov-on-Don, in Southern Russia, on Saturday morning, officials said.

ROSTOV-ON-DON - Citizens of nine countries, i.e. Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Seychelles, Cyprus, Spain, India and Colombia, have died in the crash of a Boeing 737 at the Rostov-on-Don airport on Saturday morning, Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov told journalists.

“Most of those killed are Russians, who lived in four regions of the Russian Federation, that is, in the Rostov region, the Krasnodar territory, the Volgograd region, and the city of Moscow,” Sokolov said.Forty victims of the crash were residents of the Rostov region, he said.

The disaster killed a total of 62 people.