Russians injured in plane crash in Kazakhstan will be transferred to Moscow
All nine Russians injured in the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane in Kazakhstan will be transported to Moscow under the supervision of doctors. Alexei Osipov, director of the Federal Center for Disaster Medicine of the Russian Ministry of Health, told Izvestia on December 26.
"Nine people will be transported to Moscow, one child. Stable all of them. Now the Kazakh side is additionally coordinating the transportation - a formal procedure," he said.
According to Osipov, the exact addresses where the injured Russians will be transported remain unknown.
At the same time, he informed that 15 medical workers - surgeons and traumatologists from different federal institutions in the capital - will accompany the injured Russians at the time of transportation.
"These are our citizens, and we always take our citizens," Osipov announced.
A passenger plane of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), heading on the Baku-Grozny route, crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on December 25. After the crash the plane caught fire, the fire was extinguished. Preliminary, the cause of the fall of the airplane could be a collision with a flock of birds. After the crash, a criminal case was initiated.
The passenger list of AZAL includes 62 passengers and five crew members. According to the latest data, seven Russians died, nine survived and were hospitalized. A special airplane of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation will deliver to Moscow the citizens of the Russian Federation, injured in the crash, on the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In turn, Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Kanat Bozumbayev came to the victims of the plane crash. He also reported that as a result of the airplane crash killed 38 people.
At the site of the tragedy continue search and rescue work. AZAL has suspended flights from Baku to Grozny and Makhachkala until the investigation is completed.
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