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At least 13 people, including three children, were killed when a Russian Su-34 warplane crashed Monday into an apartment building in the city of Yeisk on the Sea of Azov in the Krasnodar region near the Ukrainian border, Moscow said Tuesday, signaling an end to the search under the rubble. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the fighter was on a training flight and its pilots managed to escape following throwing themselves out of it, attributing the causes of the accident to a “technical defect”.
Russia announced Tuesday that at least 13 people, including three children, were killed when a Russian Su-34 fighter jet crashed on Monday and crashed into an apartment building in the south of the country near the border. UkrainianShe said that the search operations under the rubble have ended.
In this context, Russian news agencies reported, quoting the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as saying that “rescue teams completed the search under the rubble (…) In the end, 13 people were killed, including three children, and 19 others were wounded.” The ministry stated that the search operations under the rubble led to the recovery of “ten additional bodies”, following an initial toll stated that three people had died in the accident.
The downing of the fighter caused a fire in the nine-storey apartment building, which has a population of regarding 900 people. The disaster occurred in the city of Yeisk, which lies on the Sea of Azov in the Krasnodar region, near the border with Ukraine.
In turn, the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had notified the incident and ordered the Ministers of Health Mikhail Murashko and Alexander Korenkov to go to Iesko.
The jet fuel caused a huge fire in the building, which destroyed five of its nine floors.
The fighter was involved in the accident on a training flight, and its pilots managed to escape following throwing themselves out of it, according to the Ministry of Defense, which attributed the cause of the accident to a technical malfunction caused by “a fire in one of the engines at takeoff.”
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