Wreckage of passenger plane found in eastern Russia
07 July 2021 |
2:55 pm
Search teams find the wreckage of a passenger plane carrying 28 people that had disappeared in a remote Russian peninsula. Sources from the emergency ministry have said that the search for survivors would be paused due to loss of light as the evening drew in, but initial reports have suggested no survivors would be found.
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