Sunday, July 09, 2006

Plane Crash in Siberia

Gazeta.ru is reporting that 124 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of the crashed passenger plane in Irkutsk, Siberia. 71 survivors have been taken to hospital. There were reportedly 11 foreign nationals on board the plane, from Poland, Germany, Moldavia, South Korea and China. The daughter of the writer Valentin Rasputin died in the crash.

Some reports say that a local Irkutsk FSB official, Sergei Koryakov, was on board the plane.

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