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Residents of Murmansk lay down flowers at the airport to pay tribute to victims killed in a plane fire. Forty-one people including at least two children have died after a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and erupted in a huge ball of fire and black smoke at Moscow's busiest airport on Sunday. IMAGES of people laying flowers
Ambulances are parked outside Moscow airport, where flights are being canceled and people leave after a passenger plane on fire attempted an emergency landing at Moscow's busiest airport. "For the moment, we confirm the death of 13 people, two of them children,' said a spokeswoman for the crash investigation team, Svetlana Petrenko, news agencies reported.
Seventy one people, including three foreign nationals and six crew members, were killed when Saratov Airlines flight 6W703 crashed shortly after take-off. The plane was flying to the city of Orsk when it vanished from radar screens shortly after it took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, before crashing some 50 miles south-east of the capital. According to the Russian Transport Ministry a special committee is investigating the cause of the deadly crash.
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