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Urgent: Plane crash in Kazakhstan's Almaty kills at least 7 -- authorities

December 27, 2019

NUR-SULTAN, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people were killed after a plane of Kazakh airline Bek Air with 95 passengers and five crew members on board crashed early Friday near the country's biggest city of Almaty, the Interior Ministry said.

The aircraft crashed outside the airport shortly after taking off, according to a statement of Almaty Airport. Evacuation is underway and medical services are working on the site.