Dozens dead as Azerbaijani plane crashes in Kazakhstan

Thirty-eight people have died after an Azerbaijani plane crashed on Wednesday near the Kazakhstan city of Aktau, Kazakhstan officials said.

Deputy prime minister Kanat Bozumbaev disclosed the death toll while meeting with Azerbaijani officials, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.

Azerbaijan’s prosecutor general’s office said previously that 32 of the 67 people on board the plane had survived.

The plane crashed while en route from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Russian city Grozny in the North Caucasus.